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Melons and other Fruits do contribute to a 

 plentiful diicharge of Urine : and thefe ar^ 

 certainly the true reafons why we are fel- 

 dom troubled with any other Diftemper but a 

 Fever j whicli I confefs is bad enough 3 for it of- 

 ten fweeps away great numbers of People, efpe- 

 cially in the Month of O^lober, v/hen the Trade 

 Wind which is the natural Wind for that Cli- 

 mate veers from Eafl to North. Jamaica is a 

 fickly Ifland, occafioned by an excefiive faint 

 Heat, and the People's Intemperance ; they have 

 many Diftempers there. Water Melons are of 

 five or fix ditferent forts, and fome of them full 

 as big as my Head; They melt in our mouth like 

 a Peach, and are in my opinion far the finell 

 Fruit I ever tafted; We eat vaft numbers of them. 

 Our other Fruits are Mufk Melons, Bonanoes, 

 Pine-apples, Oranges, Shaddocks, Penguins, 

 Black Cherries, Sea-fide Grapes, Belle-Apples, 

 and Guavuas. Muflc-melons are the fame with 

 our Englijh ones. Bonanoes and Shaddocks are 

 already defcribed in paragraph 7^^ of this Letter. 

 Oranges there, are in great perfection. Penguins 

 are of two forts 3 the fmall and long fort are too 

 tart for my palate, and are ufed for Gargling the 

 Mouth in Fevers ; and the larger and round fort 

 (of the fize of an Apple) were liked by every 

 body y they have a thick Hulk which covers the 

 Fruit that is of a milk white colour, and full of 



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