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260. Some account of New Holland
who cut them down for fire wood complaind much that their tools were damagd by them Some trees there were also to the Northward whose soft bark,which easily peels off is in the East Indies applyd to the use of calking ships in Lieu of Oakum [Margin note] Trees Palms here were of three different sorts the first which grew plentifully to the Southward had leaves pleated like a fan the Cabbage of these was but small but exquisitely sweet & the nuts which it bore in great abundance a very good food for hogs. the second was very much like the real cabbage tree of the West Indies bearing large pinnated leaves like those of a Cocoa nut these too yeilded cabbage if not so sweet as the other sort yet the quantity made ample amends the third which as well as the second was found only in the Northern parts was low seldom ten feet in hight with small pennated leaves resembling those of some kinds of fern Cabbage it had none but generaly bore a plentifull Crop of nutts about the size of a large chestnut & rounder by the hulls of these which we found plentifully near the Indian fires we were
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