Q: "fastick wood"?

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks.  Fits the West Indies location.

Joel

At 4/20/2006 02:02 PM, you wrote:
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>Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:
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> > What is "fastick wood", 1655, a commodity as important to Jamaica
> > (then) as lignum vitae?
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>Maybe a variant spelling of fustic wood.
>http://www.forestry.gov.jm/pdf_files/localtreenames.pdf
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>Stephen Goranson
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