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islands. The lemons of St. Helena are the 

 most esteemed, growing larger, and of a 

 milder flower than other kinds. 



This fruit is now become almost neces- 

 sary in culinary purposes, as well as being 

 an article of luxury in a variety of shapes : 

 it makes an excellent sweetmeat when cleared 

 of it's pulp, and prepared with clarified syrup. 

 Lemonade and lemon ices are as well known 

 in the present day as punch was in the last 

 age. The yellow peel of the lemon is an 

 agreeable aromatic ; and, in cold phlegmatic 

 constitutions, it proves an excellent stoma- 

 chic and carminative, warming the habit 

 and strengthening the tone of the viscera. 



Lemons are cooling and grateful to the 

 stomach, allaying thirst, increasing appetite, 

 and are useful in fevers, even malignant and 

 pestilential. The juice, mixed with salt of 

 wormwood, is an excellent medicine to stop 

 vomiting, and to strengthen the stomach. The 

 efficacy of lemon-juice in preventing the sea- 

 scurvy, has long been recommended. Sir 

 James Lancaster, in his voyage in 1601, 

 carried with him several bottles of lemon- 

 juice, and, by giving his sailors a few table- 

 spoons-full in the morning, kept off this dis- 

 order. 



In Captain Cook's voyages, great benefit 

 was derived from lemon and orange-juice, 



