This gum runs not always in a longitudinal direction in the body of the tree, but is found in it in circles, like a scroll.

There is however, a species of light wood which is found excellent for boat building, but it is scarce and hardly ever found of large size.
To find limestone many of our researches were directed.

But after repeated assays with fire and chemical preparations on all the different sorts of stone to be picked up, it is still a desideratum.

Nor did my experiments with a magnet induce me to think that any of the stones I tried contained iron.

I have, however, heard other people report very differently on this head.
The list of esculent vegetables, and wild fruits is too contemptible to deserve notice, if the 'sweet tea' whose virtues have been already recorded, and the common orchis root be excepted.