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tatas, Bananas, Melons and Watermelons, befides others 

 peculiar to Peru. The molt valu'd of the laft Sort are the 

 Chirimoyas, refernbling in fmall the Ananas and Pine Ap- 

 ples, being full of a white folid Subftance, mix'd with 

 Seeds as big as Kidney Beans ; the Leaf is fomewhat like 

 that of the Mulberry Tree, and the Wood refembles that 

 of the Hazle, 



The Granadillas are a Sort of Pomgranates, full of biack- GranadillasJ 

 ilh Kernels, fwimming in a Vifcous Subftance, of the Co- 

 lour of the White of an Egg, very cooling, and of ah agree- 

 able Tafte. The Leaves are fomewhat like thofe of the 

 Lime Tree, and the Imagination of the Spaniards forms in 

 the Flowers all the Inftruments of the Paffion. Father 

 Feuille'e, who has drawn this Fruity calls it Granadilla Po- 

 mifera Tilia folio. 



Thofe they call Hi gas de Tuna, or Tuna Figs, are the Higas de 

 Fruit of the Raquette, or Euphorbium, as big as a green una * 

 Walnut, cover'd with Points, almoft as lharp as thofe of the 

 outward Rind of the Cheftnut $ they are good and whol- 

 fome. The Lucumas, Pacayas, Pepinos, Ciruelas, Plums 

 like Jujubs, are there very plentiful. 



There is this Conveniency at Lima, that there is Fruit Odd Seafom: 

 all the Year long, becaufe as foon as they begin to fail in 

 the Plain, they are ripe on the neighbouring Hills. This 

 is alfo to be obferv'd, that the Seafons fliould be fo differ- 

 ent in the fame Latitude, that thofe which agree to the 

 Southern Latitudes, fliould be there at the time of thofe of 

 the Northern Latitude. 



Several Perfons have ask'd me, how that could come to 

 pafs, and why that Torrid Zone, which ancient Philofo- 

 phers, and even fuch great Men as S. Augujiin and S. Tho- 

 mas, thought to be uninhabitable by reafon of the exceffive 

 Heat, fliould be fo in feveral Places, thro' intolerable Cold, 

 tho'dire&ly under the Sun. 



It is not to be required of a Traveler to fliewReafons for Keafonfo* 

 the Ph&nonemons he fpeaks of > and I would have referr'd *fy-fi***t 

 the Readers who are not vers'd in Natural Philofophy,to Fa- 

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