[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] however, fully 3, 4 @ 5 months on the ground; but near the Seacoast it is quickly dissolved by the Southerly wind; moreover. Thunder, Lightning, Rain, a-bouithesameasin heavy showers. Hail, Snow, Rime, Dew, Frost and such like are the same here Netherland. ^ as in Netherland, except that in summer 'tis subject to more sudden tornadoes. kuiVof'eropVwilh The soil is fit and adapted to the bearing of all kinds both of Winter and Nmheriand. "''"' ™ Summer crops, and that with less labor and tilling than in Netherland. It Of the timber fonnd produces sevcral kinds of timber, suitable for the construction of houses and ships, in New Netherland. ^^,,. ^.,., ■ ^, be they large or small, consisting of various sorts of oak, to wit: — Post-oak, smooth white bark, rough white bark, grey bark, black bark and still another sort, which, by reason of its softness, is called butter oak; (5) but it is the poorest of all, and not very valuable. The others, if cultivated as in Netherland, would be as good as any Flemish or Brabant oaks; various sorts of Nut timber, such ftd'^i'i^N.'NeSlr-' ^s oil nut, large and small; hickory, also large and small. This timber is very '"'"'• abundant here, and much used as firewood, for which it is also right well adapted; Chestnuts, as in Netherland, but they grow wild without regularity; three sorts of Beeches, such as the water-beech,' common beech and hedge beech, axhandle wood, two sorts of canoe wood,^ ash, birch, pine, lathwood, Imberen or