As witness hereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord God 1695-6.

Betty Pathungo, 3 her mark, Pathungo Wappatoe, Pi his mark, Elias Jozes Pathungo Askarame, q her mark, Chrishoam Pathungo, S her marke, Porige, § his marke, Elaas Arowash, Arawask's wife, Hannah >- her mark, Ingen. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of James Mott, Samuel Palmer, Joseph Horton, the marke of '<^ Akabaska.^

The wliitsw^ood trees referred to in the above deed by the sachem Pathungo, are the Liriodendron tnlipifera of Linnaeus, from the trunk of which the Indians manufactured their canoes; hence it was commonly called by them " canoe wood."

" Whoever (remarks Mr. Downing) has once seen the tulip tree in a situation where the soil was favorable to its free growth, can never forget it ; with a clean trunk, straigiit as a column for forty or fifty feet, surmounted by a fine ample summit of rich green foliage. It is, in our estimation, decidedly the most stately tree in North America. When standing alone, and encouraged in its lateral growth, it will indeed often produce a lower head, but it.s tendency is lo rise; and it only exhibits itself in all its stateliness and majesty, when, supported on such a noble columnar trunk, it towers far above the heads of its neighbors of the park or forest. Even when at its loftiest elevation, its large specious blossoms, which, from their form, one of our poets has likened to a cljalice --