Note 222 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.
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Abies nigra, Poir. (black or double spruce), and probably also A. alba, Michx. (white or single spruce). “At Pascataway there is now a spruce-tree, brought down to the water-side by our mass-men, of an incredible bigness, and so long that no skipper durst ever yet adventure to ship it; but there it lyes and rots.”—Josselyn’s Voyages, p. 67.