ght Sorts
of _Oak_, several Kinds of _Walnut-Tree_, and _Hickory_ and _Pignut_,
_Pine_, _Cedar_, and _Cypress_ for _Shingles_; which Covering is
lighter than _Tiles_, and being nailed down, are not easily blown off in
any Tempest or _Gust_.

The Oak, _&c._ is of quick Growth, consequently will not last so long as
ours; though it has a good _Grain_, and is freer from Knots, and will
last long enough for Shipping, and ordinary Uses.

When a _Tract of Land is seated_, they _clear_ it by felling the Trees
about a Yard from the Ground, lest they should shoot again. What Wood
they have Occasion for they carry off, and burn the rest, or let it lie
and rot upon the Ground.

The Land between the Logs and Stumps they _how_ up, planting _Tobacco_
there in the Spring, inclosing it with a slight _Fence_ of cleft Rails.
This will last for _Tobacco_ some Years, if the Land be good; as it is
where _fine Timber_, or _Grape Vines_ grow.

Land when tired is _forced_ to bear _Tobacco_ by penning their Cattle
upon it; but _Cowpen Tobacco_ tastes strong, and that planted in wet
marshy Land is called _Nonburning Tobacco_, which smoaks in the Pipe
like Leather, unless it be of a good Age.

When Land is tired of _Tobacco_, it will bear _Indian Corn_ or _English
Wheat_, or any other _European Grain_ or _Seed_, with wonderful
Increase.

_Tobacco_ and _Indian Corn_ are planted in _Hills_ as Hops, and secured
by _Wormfences_, which are made of Rails supporting one another very
firmly in a particular Manner.

_Tobacco_ requires a great deal of Skill and Trouble in the right
Management of it.

They raise the Plants in _Beds_, as we do Cabbage Plants; which they
_transplant_ and _replant_ upon Occasion after a Shower of Rain, which
they call a _Season_.

When it is grown up they _top_ it, or nip off the Head, _succour_ it, or
cut off the Ground Leaves, _weed_ it, _hill_ it; and when ripe, they
_cut_ it down about six or eight Leaves on a Stalk, which they carry
into airy _Tobacco Houses_; after it is withered a little in the Sun,
there it is hung to dry on _Sticks_, as Paper at the Paper-Mills; when
it is in proper Case, (as they call it) and the Air neither too moist,
nor too dry, they _strike_ it, or take it down, then cover it up in
_Bulk_, or a great Heap, where it lies till they have Leisure or
Occasion to _stem_ it (that is pull the Leaves from the Stalk) or
_strip_ it (that is take out the great Fibres) and _tie_ it up in
_Hands_,