Pine abounding in pitch.
1754. The Glutinous Juices of the American Pitch Pine.—‘Sixth Rep. Dep. Keeper,’ ii. 128, App. (N.E.D.)
1796. The smoke of the pitch pine is particularly thick and heavy.—Isaac Weld, ‘Travels through North America,’ p. 132 (Lond., 1799).
1797. These pines are of the species which is called by the inhabitants “pitch pine,” and grow to an enormous height and vast size: they are bare of branches to near their tops; so that in travelling through them they appear like a grove of large masts, which has a very curious effect.—Fra. Baily, F.R.S., ‘Journal of a Tour,’ p. 346 (Lond., 1856).
1821. The thier [plain] is considerably elevated above this, and is covered with pitch-pines.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ i. 298.
1821. Pitch pine abounds in many parts of Ohio and Indiana, and generally in the neighbourhood of the Alleghany mountains.—E. James, ‘Rocky Mountain Expedition,’ ii. 339 (Phila., 1823).
1824. [He snatched] a pitch pine knot blazing from the fire, [and] expressed his determination to rescue the priest, or perish in the attempt.—Mass. Spy, Dec. 15.
1872. Do you know two native trees called pitch pine and white pine respectively? Of course you know ’em. Well, there are pitch-pine Yankees and white-pine Yankees.—Holmes, ‘The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. x.
