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CHAP, in one pod they are agreeable eating raw, but flill better 

 * , when roafted in hot allies. To illuftrate the above de- 

 fcriptions, I prefent the reader with the plate annexed^ 

 where ^ is a fprig of limes in full ripenefs ; the Cay- 

 enne or cica pepper ; C, the pimento pepper or lattacaca ;. 

 X), the capficuni called dago -peepee ; £, the mammee 

 apple when it is fully ripe; F, the leaf above, of a beauti- 

 ful green; G, the leaf below, of a yellowiih green; 

 the piftachio nut in the hufk; /, the ground piitachio in 

 its dried ftate ; K, one of the kernels belonging to the 

 latter. 



The whole of the above were taken from nj^ture, though 

 •upon a fmall fcale ; yet I flatter myfelf they will be found 

 more perfecft copies of the originals than fome of Mad. Me- 

 rian's, with all their boafted reputation. — I cannot difmifs 

 this fubje^t without a few other remarks on the incorredl- 

 nefs of this lady's drawings. For inftance, her leaf of the 

 lime-tree is evidently too round ; and if by her palifade 

 branchy in plate XI. fhe means the manicole-tree, I nmft 

 declare I never difcovered fuch a leaf among the many 

 thoufands I have helped to cut down. Her cotton twig, 

 and efpecially the pod containing the cotton, are alfo no 

 true reprefentation of thofe which are produced in Su- 

 rinam. 



In another place Oie declares, that grapes are common in 

 Guiana — which I alfo muft contradict ; for it is well known, 

 that no thin-fkinned fruit can ever come to perfection in 

 a tropical climate, fuch as grapes, cherries, currants, 

 7 , ftrawberries. 



