The woods do not produce any great variety of Trees, there are only 2 or 3 sorts that can be could_^^call'd Timber; the largest is the Gum Tree which growes all over the Country, the Wood of this Tree is too hard and ponderous for most common uses. The Tree which resembles our Pines, I saw no where in perfection but in Sting_^ ^Botany Bay Harbour, this wood as I have before observed is some thing of the same nature as America Live Oak; in short most of the large Trees in this Country are of a hard and ponderous nature and could not be applied to many purposes. Here are several sorts of the Palm kind, Mangroe and several other sorts of small Trees and shrubs quite unknown to me and wholy out of my way to describebesides a very great Variety of Plants hetherto unknown, but these

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