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CHAP, glaffes, and even plate and china, in great abundance ; 



^ , and the gentlemen loaded me with prefents of Madeira 



wine, porter, cyder, rum and fugar, belides a quantity 

 of the moft exquifite fruits. Amongft the latter I was 

 particularly ftruck with the fliaddock. and awara; the 

 former of thefe, which is of a very agreeable flavour, 

 between a fweet and an acid, is produced from a tree 

 fuppofed to be tranfplanted from the coaft of Guinea *, 

 by a Captain Shaddock, whofe name it ftill retains 

 throughout the Englifli Weft India iflands, but is called 

 pompelmoofe in Surinam. This fruit appears to be of 

 the orange fpecies, but is as large as the head of a child 

 of eight or ten years old ; the fldn is extremely thick, 

 of a bitterifh tafte, and a pale yellow or citron colour. 

 There are two fpecies of the fliaddock, of which the pulp 

 of the one is white, and that of the other a beautiful 

 pale red, which may be fafely eaten in confiderable quan- 

 tities : indeed it is efteemed by the natives, who are in 

 general remarkably fond of it^ as very fahibrious. 



The awara, or avoira, which is lefs remarkable for 

 the excellence of its flavour than its beautiful appear- 

 ance, grows upon a fpecies of palm-tree, and is of an 

 oval form, about the flze of an Orlean plumb, and of a 

 rich deep orange colour, nearly approaching to red. It 

 is much efteemed by the negroes, who exercife their in- 



* . Exotic of Cerean dye, 



Sweet acid offspring of an injur'd (ky ; 

 O Shaddock ! like th.y country, captive led, 

 And doom'd to grace the board her children fpread. 



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