A DISCOURSE

. book ii. do in this work ; namely, to encourage all imaginable industry of sucli astravel into foreign countries, and especially Gentlemen who have concernsin our American plantations, to promote the culture of such plants and trees,especially timber, as may yet add to those we find already agreeable to our

'• Duration. This property has been well ascertained by some pieces of Locust-tree, still continu-ing firm and sound in some old houses in New England , that were built when the country was first