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trunk is grey and rough ; the twigs are green. 

 The leaves are six inches long-, and of a kind of 

 oval figure, and of a most beautiful green colour. 

 The flowers are white like those of the lemon tree, 

 and the fruit resembles a lemon; but it is larger, 

 and often full of protuberances. The outer rind 

 is of a pale vellovv, and very fragrant; the inner 

 rind is exceedingly thick^ and white ; there is very 

 little pulp, though the fruit be so large. The 

 juice is like tliat of the lemon; but the yellovr 

 outer rind is the only part used in medicine : this 

 is an excellent stomachic^ and of a very pleasant 

 flavour. The Barbadoes water owes its taste to 

 the peel of this fruit ; and there is a way of making 

 a water very nearly equal to it in England, by the 

 addition of spice to the fresh peels of good lemons ; 

 the method is as follows : 



Put into a small still a gallon of fine molasses 

 spirit^ put to it six of the peels of very fine lemons, 

 and half an ounce of nutmegs, and one dram of 

 cinnamon bruised, let them stand all night, then 

 add two quarts of water, and fasten on the head ; 

 distil five pints and a half, and add to this a quart 

 and half a pint of water, with five ounces of the 

 .finest sugar dissolved in it. This will be very 

 nearly equal to the finest Barbadoes water. 



The CiTRULL. CitJ^ullus, 



A CREEPING plant of the melon kind, cul. 

 tivated in many parts of Europe and the East., 

 The branches or stalks are ten feet long, thick, 

 angular, fleshy, and hairy : they trail upon the 

 ground unless'supported. The leaves are large, 

 and stand singly on long foot-stalks ; ihcy are di- 

 vided deeply into five parts, and ar*? hairy also, and 



of a pale green colour ; the flowers are large and 



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