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A66357 Virginia's discovery of silke-vvorms, with their benefit and the implanting of mulberry trees : also the dressing and keeping of vines, for the rich trade of making wines there : together with the making of the saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of timber and clapbord, to build with-all, and its conversion to other as profitable uses. Williams, Edward, fl. 1650. 1650 (1650) Wing W2659; ESTC R235035 55,527 81

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