Q: "fastick wood"?

[Stephen Goranson]

Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:

>
> What is "fastick wood", 1655, a commodity as important to Jamaica
> (then) as lignum vitae?

Maybe a variant spelling of fustic wood.
http://www.forestry.gov.jm/pdf_files/localtreenames.pdf

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu?~goranson

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