A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

CON NEe TIC U T. 147
tnc1 elaftic, as the whale-bone dried. The
red, black, and chefnut oak, are, indeed,
much 'inferior to the white oak. The
alb, elm, beech, chefnut, walnut, hazel,
faffafras, famach, maple, and butternut,
are the chief timber-trees of this province,
and grow to an amazing bulk. The laft
is a native of America, and takes its name
from a nut it produces, of the ilia pe and
fize of a pullet's egg, which contains a
meat larger than any Englilh walnut, in
tafte like frelh butter: it alfo mak.es an
excellent pickle. The butternut furnilhes
fine, but tender boards,; and its bark dyes
black, and cures cutaneous diforders. In
February this tree yields a rap, of which
are made fug1r, molal1es, and vinegar.
The upland maple-tree al(o affords a rap
equally good,; and both (aps make a plearant
beverage without boiling, and the betl
punch ever drank in Conneaicut.
Here are man)' iron mines, nay moun-tains
of iron ore,; and, if they had
R + been