( Ior ) 
in length. The cones are long and large, opening 
and dropping their feeds in the fall. It is accounted 
equal to any for yielding tar, &c % 
3. Pin us rigid a. Common three leaved Virgin 
nian Fine . 
This grows common in many places throughout 
thefe (tales, rifing often to the height of fixty or 
feventy feet, with a large ereft trunk, dividing into 
branches towards the top, and fumilhed with pretty 
long leaves growing by threes in a (heath. The 
cones are often produced in clufters round the 
branches, they are about three inches long and have 
rigid fcales. There are whole Forefts of many 
hundred acres of thefe trees in fome back parts of 
the country, of which great quantities of Boards 
are (awed and floated down fome of our long rivers. 
4. Pinus Strobus. Nevu-England , or White 
Pine . 
This is allowed to out top in growth molt of our 
other trees, rifing with a large ereft trunk, to the 
height of an hundred feet or more, covered with a 
fmooth bark and fending off many long branches,. 
The leaves are long and (lender, growing by fives in 
a (heath, and fet thick on the branches. The cones 
are often fix or feven inches in length, and generally 
befmeared with turpentine, with which thefe trees 
much abound. The cones generally open about the 
firft of September, foon after which the feeds drop 
out. This alfo grows in great plenty towards the 
heads of fome of our rivers, from whence great 
quantities are rafted down, affording excellent mails, 
yards, fpars, &c. for (hip building. 
5. Pinus 
