ese are the berries which
Captain Smith compared to the English gooseberry, and called
Rawcomens; having, perhaps, seen them only on the bushes, where
they are always very sour.

4. The wild raspberry is by some there preferred to those that
were transplanted thither from England; but I cannot be of their
opinion.

5. Strawberries they have, as delicious as any in the world, and
growing almost every where in the woods and fields. They are eaten
almost by all creatures; and yet are so plentiful that very few
persons take care to transplant them, but can find enough to fill
their baskets, when they have a mind, in the deserted old fields.

Sec. 14. There grow wild several sorts of good nuts, viz.: chestnuts,
chinkapins, hazelnuts, hickories, walnuts, &c.

1. Chestnuts are found upon very high trees, growing in barren
ridges. They are something less than the French chestnut; but, I
think not differing at all in taste.

2. Chinkapins have a taste something like a chestnut, and grow in
a husk or bur, being of the same sort of substance, but not so big
as an acorn. They grow upon large bushes, some about as high as
the common apple trees in England, and either in the high or low,
but always barren ground.

3. Hazelnuts are there in infinite plenty, in all the swamps; and
towards the heads of the rivers, whole acres of them are found
upon the high land.

4. Hickory nuts are of several sorts, all growing upon great
trees, and in an husk, like the French walnut, except that the
husk is not so thick, and more apt to open. Some of these nuts are
inclosed in so hard a shell, that a light hammer will hardly crack
them; and when they are cracked, their kernel is fastened with so
firm a web, that there is no coming at it. Several other sorts I
have seen with thinner shells, whose kernels may be got with less
trouble. There are also several sorts of hickories, called pig
nuts, some of which have as thin a shell as the best French
walnuts, and yield their meat very easily; they are all of the
walnut kind.

5. They have a sort of walnut they call black walnuts, which are
as big again as any I ever saw in England, but are very rank and
oily, having a thick, hard, foul shell, and come not clear of the
husk as the walnut in France doth; but the inside of the nut, and
leaves, and growing of the tree, declare it to be of the walnut
kind.

6. Their wo