This Tastes As Well As Any Almond.
Another Dish Is The Soup Which They Make Of These Nuts, Beaten,
And Put Into Venison-Broth, Which Dissolves The Nut, And Thickens,
Whilst The Shell Precipitates, And Remains At The Bottom.
This Broth Tastes Very Rich.
{Red Hiccory.} There is another sort,
which we call red Hiccory, the Heart thereof being very red,
firm and durable; of which Walking-Sticks, Mortars, Pestils,
and several other fine Turnery-wares are made.
The third is call'd
the Flying-bark'd Hiccory, from its brittle and scaly Bark.
It bears a Nut with a bitter Kernel and a soft Shell, like a French Walnut.
Of this Wood, Coggs for Mills are made, &c. The Leaves smell very fragrant.
{Walnut.}
The Walnut-Tree of America is call'd Black Walnut. I suppose,
that Name was, at first, to distinguish it from the Hiccories,
it having a blacker Bark. This Tree grows, in good Land,
to a prodigious Bigness. The Wood is very firm and durable,
of which Tables and Chests of Drawers are made, and prove very well.
Some of this is very knotty, which would make the best Returns for England,
tho' the Masters of Vessels refuse it, not understanding its Goodness.
'Tis a very good and durable Wood, to bottom Vessels for the Sea withal;
and they say, that it is never eaten by the Worm. The Nuts have
a large Kernel, which is very oily, except lain by, a long time, to mellow.
The Shell is very thick, as all the native Nuts of America are.
When it has its yellow outward Coat on, it looks and smells much like a Lemon.
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