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rica." He adds, that they are distinguished 

 in Barbadoes by the names of the White, the 

 Blue, the Marbled, and the Garden Pumpkin. 

 The latter differs from all the rest by having 

 no seed, but is propagated by slips. He says, 

 also, that they are boiled and eaten with 

 flesh meat, and much used by the poorer sort 

 in soups. 



The jugglers, or quacks, in some parts of 

 America, extract the pulp out of pompions, 

 and fill them with flint stones, with which 

 they make a great noise, and pretend to 

 frighten away all the complaints of their su- 

 perstitious patients. 



