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The Jafmim fruit has the form and colour of 

 a lemon ; it is odoriferous, and tailes like Banian 

 figs ; it feeds refemble. beans •, they arc a poifon 

 to hogs J. 



Here are a number of orange and peach trees -, 

 and both the oranges and peaches are fo com- 

 mon in this colony, that they are left under the 

 trees to rot. 



There are apple-trees and plum-trees ; and 

 ■whole forells of walnut-trees ; of which there is 

 a white kind or the hiccory^ and another black ; 

 both kinds bear nuts j they are as in Europe of 

 different goodnefs for eating ; there are likewile 

 fome walnuts as big as the fift, but they are bit- 

 ter, having very thick and hard fhells. There 

 is a tree which bears a fruit called paca'nnes -, they 

 are oblong like almonds^ and more delicious : 



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which mud ftand upon them twenty-four hours : ftraln the 

 water through a cloth and keep it in a bottle. "When you arc 

 attacked with the gravel, drink a glafs full of the infufion 

 falling, and continue to do it till you are cured f, 



f This is perhaps the perfimon, diofpyros Virglniana 

 Linn. F. 



X This plant feems to be one of the various kinds of anona^ 

 which grow over all the warmer parts of North- America. F, 



