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at all used with food, especially raw, as their juice, although 

 vinous, is nevertheless unpleasant and slightly bitter. They 

 are, however, used in a sort of rustic drink, called " Pons " 

 (Punch) ; but for this, Lemon Martin is the best. This drink 

 is not healthful, as it is made up of a lot of incompatible in- 

 gredients, which are mixed in raw. The bases of it, how- 

 ever, are the heating arack, and the refrigerating lemon juice. 



" Then these dark green oranges are excellent for cleaning 

 and polishing copper, whether alone or mixed with powdered 

 charcoal, so that copper becomes bright and splendid, if at 

 once it be washed in water and dried in the sun. 



" These oranges are also very useful for washing the head, 

 which they clean very well. They also clean off perspiration, 

 and don't sting the skin as much as others. For this purpose 

 they are first toasted over hot ashes, till they slightly burn 

 and blacken ; then they are cut and used. They can be also 

 used for preparing Cassomba pigment, although not alone, 

 but mixed with other lemons. They must be peeled before 

 squeezing their juice. This is also done when used for clean- 

 ing copper. 



" I add another kind, which mostly occurs in Macassar and 

 Baleya, and is there called Lemon Maritsja, that is lemon 

 crispus and, Nitor piper is > which is of the size of Limo nipis, or 

 somewhat smaller, but at both ends either plane or depressed, 

 resembling the sweet oranges of the Amboynese ; externally 

 rugose, and all over covered with small tubercles resembling 

 grains of pepper, hence, probably, its name. Its skin, however, 

 is thin, and can be easily peeled off, so that the pulp can be 

 removed whole, as in the sweet oranges of Amboyna. Its 

 pulp is acid and used with food by the people of Macassar.* 



" Of this class a huge variety occurs in Amboyna, the fruit 

 of which grows to the size of an infant's head. Externally 

 it is granulated, and has few seeds ; the pulp, however, has a 

 feebler flavour than the common ones." 



Observation. 



As of lemons, so of oranges, many are the varieties which 

 have been enumerated by various authors. This also occurs, 



* In India there is a small sour orange of the " keonla" or " stintara" 

 type, called " khatti naringi? or " bannati benarsce nimboo? 



