Part 7 (1/2)

Each year the bark of a tree divides, and distributes itself two contrary ways, the outer part gives towards the skin, till it becoth falls off; the inner part is added to the wood The bark is to the body of a tree, what the skin of our body is to the flesh

Of what use is Bark?

Bark is useful for s: of the bark of s and linden trees, ropes are soe of the cocoa tree bark, as do most of the Asiatic and African nations; in the East Indies, they make the bark of a certain tree into a kind of cloth; some are used in , as that of the alder; others in spicery, as cinna; that of a kind of birch is used by the Indians forcanoes

What are Canoes?

Boats used by savages; they arehollow; and soether

How do the savages guide them?

With paddles, or oars; they seldo is laid in the bottoement of them?

Yes, extreularity, that the canoes see the surface of the water; at the sa the vessels with their bodies, to prevent their overturning

_Dexterous_, expert, nimble

Do they leave their canoes in the water on their return fro theenerally so light as to be easily carried from place to place

Were not books once made of Bark?

Yes, the ancients wrote their books on the barks of many trees, as on those of the ash and the lime tree, &c

Which part did they use?

Not the exterior or outer bark, but the inner and finer, which is of so durable a texture, that there are h more than a thousand years old

Is it not also used in Manure?

Yes, especially that of the oak; but the best oak bark is used in tanning

What is Cork?

The thick, spongy, external bark of the Cork Tree, a species of oak

There are two varieties of this tree, the broad-leaved and the narrow: it is an evergreen, and grows to the height of thirty feet The Cork Tree attains to a very great age