The acorns of one kind, whose bank is more white than the other, and somewhat sweetish, which being boiled, at last afford a sweet oil, that they keep in gourds to anoint their heads and joints. The fruit they eat made in bread or otherwise. If the trees be very great, the ashes will be good, and melt to hard lumps, but if they be small, it will be but powder, and not so good as the other. By the dwelling of the savages are some great mulberry trees, and in some parts of the country, they are found growing naturally in pretty groves. In some parts were found some chestnuts, whose wild fruit equalize the best in France, Spain, Germany or Italy.
Plums there are of three sorts.
Except by the rivers and savage habitations, where they are not overshadowed from the sun, they are covered with fruit, though never pruned nor manured. Of those hedge grapes we made near twenty gallons of wine, which was like our French British wine, but certainly they would prove good were they well manured. They have a small fruit growing on little trees, husked like a chestnut, but the fruit most like a very small acorn. When they need walnuts they break them between two stones, yet some part of the shells will cleave to the fruit. This water will be colored as milk, which they call pawcohiccora , and keep it for their use.