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Soon after we encamped 3 Indians of the last town Came in a Canoe with wappato roots to Sell to us Some of which we purchased with fish hooksfrom the Village quite around this bend to the West the land is high and thickly timbered with pine balsom &c. a Short distance below the Calt har mer Village on the Island which is Opposit I observed

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Small pustuls filled with the balsom rise with a blister like appearance on the body of the tree and it's branches; the bark which covers these pustules is Soft thin Smothe and easily punctured. the bark of the tree is generally thin of a dark brown colour and reather Smooth tho not as much so as the white pine of the

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Some Showers of rain last night, and to day Several verry hard Showers - we Continue to put up the Streight butifull balsom pine on our houses-and we are much pleased to find that the timber Splits most butifully and to the width of 2 feet or more.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Medecine & procription to a little girl with the rhumitism whome I had bathed in worm water, and anointed her a little with balsom Capivia.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Lewis's river appear to pass through those Mountains near the N Eastern extremity. those hills termonate in a high leavil plain between the Kooskoske & Lewis's river. these plains are in maney places well covered with the long leafed pine and Some balsom fir. the

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

This tree affords a considerable quantity of a fine Clear arromatic Balsom in appearance and taste like the Canadian balsom.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

It is of these knots they make their tar in New-England, and the country adjacent, whilst they are well impregnated with that terebinthine, and resinous matter, which like a balsom, preserves them so long from putrefaction.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

I haue taken it the thre last nights thus: I put a little pouder shugar in a spoon, and then dropt about 16 or 20 drops of the balsom on it, then coverd it with sugar and took it altogether and held it on my toungue till I took in a mouthfuU of beer, and swal - lowed all together at once and tasted nothing but the sugar.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

Page view page image: considerable quantity of a fine clear arromatic Balsom in appearance and taste like the Canadian balsom, small pustuls filled with the balsom rise with a blister like appearance on the body of the tree and its branches; the bark which covers these pustules is soft thin smoth and easily punctured. the bark of the [tree] is generally thin of a dark brown colour and reather smooth tho 'not as much so as the white pine of the U. States the wood is white and soft.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

- Fir No. 2 is next in dignity in point of size. it is much the most common species, it may be sad to constitute at least one half of the timber in this neighbourhood. it appears to be of the spruse kind. it rises to the hight of 160 to 180 feet very commonly and is from 4 to 6 feet in diameter, very streight round and regularly tapering. the bark is thin of a dark colour, and much divided with small longitudinal intersticies; that of the boughs and young trees is somewhat smoth but not so much so as the balsom fir nor that of the white pine of our country. the wood is white throughout and reather soft but very tough, and difficult to rive.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791