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By their cooling and diuretic Quality, they are fo ferviceable in hot 
Climates, that the poorer Sort in Perfia and Turky, efpecially in the 
Levant, for the Summer Months, live almoft folely upon the Musk and 
Water-Melon, Cucumbers, and Milk. 
The Vine producing the Water-Melon is long and trailing. 
Pumxins; Lat. PE po. 
Sel HE different Species of thefe are generally diftinguifhed by the 
Names of the White, the Blue, the Marbled, and the Garden Pumkin. 
The latter differs from all the reft, by having no Seed ;_ but is propa- 
gated by Slips. 
Thefe are all eafily produced, and of a very quick Growth. 
They make a great Part of the Food of the poorer Sort, in the Sum- 
mer-time, as well in 4fa and Africa, as in America. 
The Vines, bearing thefe different Sorts, are each rough and_ hairy, 
both Stalks and Leaves; and the Flowers are yellow, monopetalous, and 
very large, divided at the Top into Five deep Seétions. 
The Piftil is furrounded with yellow farinaceous Duft, which, byThree 
open Slits at the Bottom, drops into the Ovary. 
The fucceeding Fruit is generally, whilft young, of a Mixture between 
a deep Blue, and a pale White. 
They are boiled and eaten with Flefh-meat. 
I have feen a Species of thefe Fruit at Paris, which exceeds any in the 
Weft-Indies in Bigneds. 
It is much ufed by the poorer Sort in Soups. 
Seu assHeEs; Lat. MELOpPEpo. 
a eee Squafh-vine is long and trailing, the main Stalk multangular 
and hairy. 
It fupports itfelf by its numerous Clafpers and Tendrils. 
The Leaves are large, and very rough. ms 
Their Edges are irregularly ferrated, as well as the Leaves in general, 
fomewhat fcalloped. 
From the Bloffom of the Leaves rife feveral Pedicles, fupporting the Fruit 
in Miniature ; whofe Top is decorated with a large reddith-yellow Blof- 
fom, which continues on the Fruit, till it is eatable ; which it generally 
is, when as big as a Walnut. 
When boiled, they are by moft People efteemed to be very delicate 
eating. 
Thefe are of Two forts; the Long and the Round. 
The 
