Board Pine, is a very large Tree two or three Fadom 
about. 1 
For Wounds. 
It yields a very foveraign Turpentine for the Curing of 
defperate Wounds. 
For Stabbs. 
The Indians make ufe of the Mofs boiled in Spring 
Water, for Stabbs, pouring in the Liquor, and applying 
the boiled Mofs well ftamp'd or beaten betwixt two 
ftones. 
For Burning and Scalding. 
And for Burning and Scalding, they firft take out the 
fire with a ftrong decoftion of Alder Bark, then they lay 
upon it a Playfter of the bark of Board Pine firft boyled 
tender, and beat to a Playfter betwixt two ftones. 
To take Fire out of a Burn. 
One Chrijlopher Luxe, a Fifher-man, having burnt his 
Knee Pan, was healed [62] again by an Indiari Webb, or 
Wife, (for fo they call thofe Women that have Husbands;) 
She firft made a ftrong decoftion of Alder bark, with 
which fhe took out the Fire by Imbrocation, or letting of 
1 Pinus Strobus, L. (white pine). " Of the body the English make large 
canows of 20 foot long, and two foot and a half over; hollowing of them with an 
adds, and shaping of the outside like a boat." — Josselyiis Voyages, p. 64; where 
is more concerning the use of this tree in medicine. " I have seen," says Wood, 
"of these stately, high-grown trees, ten miles together, close by the river-side; 
from whence, by shipping, they might be conveyed to any desired port." — New- 
Eug. Prospeff, chap. v. 
