A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.

Of the Country.

The Country is for the most part••all o'r∣grown with wood, which the soyl, unforc'd since the Creation of the world had produc'd without culture, amongst which are some trees of such vast bignesse, as th'ar above 7 or 8 fathom in Diameter, and 70 or 80 high, of which they make Canoes, or Trees hollowed into Boats of 2 or 300 tun. As for the Brasile wood, by excellency taking its denomination from thence 'tis but a shrub in compari∣son with the other Trees, much like our bigger sort of Hawthorn Trees. The Country i•• naturally hot and moist, by reason of frequent rains; whence in many places, where the moi∣sture settles in the bottoms, you have medow grounds, some 20 or 30 mile over, (seeming a∣bandoned by those Trees, for not being firm enough to sustain the weight of their huge vast bulks.