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Codling husk sell dried in Shetland from 11 to 16 shillings
an hundred at Leith 16 & 19
For population multiply average of
births by 31 1/3 deaths by 54, marriages
64 1/5 or average of a family
by number of families
laurel magnolia 100 ft high woodstraw colour
compact border & firmer than poplar
Grape vines 12 inched diameter fruit
small & ill tasted
Tillandsia usneoides or long moss adapted
to stuff mattrasses &c works into strong
cables, when dressed resembles horse hair
Arum cicutentum likes low wet situations
in maritime parts of Georgia, root tastes like
yam perhaps or colocasia, another species
called tannier cultivated for food
Arundi gigantea grows 40 feet high 3
or 4 inches in diameter
A species collinsonia esteemed a
Grape vines near the Alabama of a peculiar
species bear large clusters of fruit
sweet & rich.
Conte a jelly prepared from the root
of the china briar smilax pseudochina the roots
chopped in pieces pounded mixed with water
strained through baskets, the sediment settling
to bottom of second vessel dried in the open
air a very fine reddish flour, a small
quantity mixed with warm water sweetened
with honey when cool a delicious jelly
hiccory milk hiccory nuts pounded mixed
with boiling water strained take fresh cream
an ingredient in cookery. Homony?
turkey weighs 20, 30, or 40 lb.
Oil from evergreen oak trunk 12 to 18 feet girth
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