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that have [64] skill in Building of Ships, that here is 
abfolutely the belt Trees in the World, many of them 
being three Fathom about, and of great length. 1 
An Achari/lon for the Scurvy. 
The tops of Green Spruce Boughs boiled in Bear, and 
drunk, is affuredly one of the beft Remedies for the Scur- 
vy, reftoring the Infected party in a fhort time; they 
alfo make a Lotion of fome of the decoction, adding 
Hony and Allum. 
Hemlock Tree, a kind of Spruce, the bark of this Tree 
ferves to dye Tawny; the Fifhers Tan their Sails and 
Nets with it. 2 
1 Abies nigra, Poir. (black or double spruce), and probably also A. alba, 
Michx. (white or single spruce). "At Pascataway there is now a spruce-tree, 
brought down to the water-side by our mass-men, of an incredible bigness, and 
so long that no skipper durst ever yet adventure to ship it; but there it lyes and 
rots." — Jossclyn s Voyages, p. 67. 
2 Abies Canadensis (L.), Michx. (hemlock spruce). Beside the coniferous 
trees here set down, our author mentions in his Voyages (p. 67) " the white ce- 
dar, ... a stately tree, and is taken by some to be tamarisk." This, which is 
probably our white cedar (Cupressus thyoides, L.), he says " the English saw into 
boards to floor their rooms ; for which purpose it is excellent, long-lasting, and 
wears very smooth and white. Likewise they make shingles to cover their houses 
with, instead of tyle. It will never warp." Wood (New-Eng. Prospect, chap, v.) 
makes mention of a "cedar-tree, ... a tree of no great growth; not bearing 
above a foot and a half, at the most; neither is it very high. . . . This wood is 
more desired for ornament than substance; being of colour red and white, like 
eugh; smelling as sweet as juniper. It is commonly used for ceiling of houses, 
and making of chests, boxes, and staves." This seems likely to have been the 
American Arbor vitce (T/iya occidentalis, L.) ; also called white-cedar. — Com- 
pare Emerson, Trees and Shrubs of Mass., pp. 96, 100. For mention of the juni- 
per, see ante, p. 49. 
