be they large or small, consisting of various sorts of oak, to wit: ^ .

Post-oak, ,. , -- ^ ,

smooth white bark, rough white bark, grey bark, black bark and still another sort, which, by reason of its softness, is called butter oak ; (5) but it is the poorest of all, and not very valuable. The others, if cultivated as in Netherland, would be as good as any Flemish or Brabant oaks ; various sorts of Nut timber, such

ftd'^i'i^N.'NeSlr-' ^s oil nut, large and small ; hickory, also large and small. This timber is very '"'"'• abundant here, and much used as which it is also right well firewood, for

adapted; Chestnuts, as in Netherland, but they grow wild without regularity; three sorts of Beeches, such as the water-beech,' common beech and hedge beech, axhandle wood, two sorts of canoe wood,^ ash, birch, pine, lathwood, Imberen or wild cedar, linden, alder, willow, thorn, elder, with divers other species adapted

'Sometimes called by farmers, Blue beech. (Carpinus Americanus. ' Liriodendron Tuli['ifera. Johnson. -- Ed.

HOLLAND. DOCUMENTS: IV. 277 to many purposes, but tiie names thereof are unknown to us; we will gladly submit them to carpenters for further examination. The fruits which the country naturally produces consist chiefly of acorns, some or ihe fruits indiof them very sweet, nuts of various sorts, chestnuts, beechnuts, but not many, ^^ymuiberrys, plums, medlars, wild cherries and black currants, gooseberries, abundance of hazel nuts, small apples, a great abundance of strawberries throughout the entire country with considerable other fruits and roots, of which the Indians make use. There are also quantities of bill-berries or blue-berries together with ground nuts and artichokes. Almost the whole country, as well the forests as or the vines, and the maize lands and flats, is full but principally -- of vines, they had been as if