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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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