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ever tasted ; there is no end of the variety of fruits, 

 of which the shaddock is " in itself an host;" but 

 the most singular and exquisite flavour, perhaps, is 

 to be found in the granadillo, a fruit which grows 

 upon a species of vine, and, in fact, appears to be 

 a kind of cucumber. It must be suffered to hang 

 till it is dead ripe, when it is scarcely any thing ex- 

 cept juice and seeds, which can only be eaten with 

 a spoon. It requires sugar, but the acid is truly 

 delicious, and like no other separate flavour that I 

 ever met with ; what it most resembles is a mace- 

 doine, as it unites the different tastes of almost all 

 other fruits, and has, at the same time, a very 

 strong flavour of wine. 



As to fish, Savannah la Mar is reckoned the best 

 place in the island, both for variety and safety; for, 

 in many parts, the fish feed upon copperas banks, 

 and cannot be used without much precaution : 

 here, none is necessary, and it is only to be wished 

 that their names equalled their flesh in taste ; for it 

 must be owned, that nothing can be less tempting 

 than the sounds of Jew-fish, hog-fish, mud-fish, 

 snappers, god-dammies, groupas, and grunts ! Of 

 the Sea Fish which I have hitherto met with, the 

 Deep-water Silk appears to me the best; and of 

 rivers, the Mountain-Mullet : but, indeed, the fish 

 is generally so excellent, and in such profusion, 

 that I never sit down to table without wishing for 

 the company of Queen Atygatis of Scythia, who 

 was so particularly fond of fish, that she prohibited 



