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white, black, red, yellow, blew, fpotted i 
befides your Bonivii and Calavances and the 
kidney-bean, that is proper to Ronoah^e^ but 
thefe are brought into the Countrie, the 
other are natural to the clirmatc. So the 
Mexico pompion which 'is flat ind deeply 
caoDphcred , the fl fh laid to , affwageth 
pain of the eyes. The water-mellon is pro- 
per to the Countrie, the flefliof itisof a 
flefh colour, a rare cooler of Fea vers, and 
excellent againft the ftone. Pomnm ffinc-^ 
fum palma Chrifli too growes not here, 
unlcfs planted, brought fronrj P^rj^ithe la- 
ter is thought to be the plant , that fhided 
Jonah the Prophet^loms 4. 6. Faraverat enim 
Jehova Vcus ruinum qui afcenderet fupra 
Jonam, ut ejfet umbra fuper caput ejus erep- 
tura mm a malo ipftm \ Utabaturque Jonas de 
ricinQillo Utitia magna. Kicinum^ that is|?i/- 
ma Chrifti^c^Wcd alfo cucurbit a ytnd therefore 
tranflated a Gourd. 
Tobacco^ or ^abacca To called fronm 
haco ot 'labag^^ one of the Carihhz-\^\.ix\ds 
about 50 Englijh milts (tom'irinidad. The 
right name^according to MonardtfSyis piciet- 
te^ as others will pctum^ nicotianirom Nicot^ 
a Portingal, to whom it was prefentcd for 
a raritie in Anno Vom. 155^. by one that 
brought it from Florida. Great conteft 
there: is about the time when it washrft 
brought 
