PLANTS. 
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A CAUTION. 
This fruit fhould be eaten with great circum- 
fpeftion ; for if this cooling fruit be taken in the 
heat of the day, when the body is very warm, bad 
t'onfequences often enfue, and it occafions coiicks, 
loofenelTes, fluxes, a foul flomach, See. I have been 
told by a perfon front Europe, a man of veracity, 
that he laft year faw a merchant from. Damafcus, 
hie fuddenly at Damiata, upon eating a whole water 
melon when he was very hot. When I came to 
Egypt I was much delighted with the appearance 
and take of this fruit, having never feen it before ; 
a nd tho’ I was very cautious, eating only a little at 
a time, yet it chilled my flomach, as if I had fwal- 
^°Wed a bit of icc, which obliged me to defifl from 
tailing it afterwards, and I likewife advifed others 
Tom it ; for tho’ it is very agreeable to the palate, 
^t it can’t be eat without danger. It is well known 
l hat people are much troubled with worms, at the 
hate this fruit is ripe. 
42. Cucumis fativus. The common Cucumber. 
This grow r s with the Water Melons. Tire 
v ' J lgar boil and eat it with vinegar ; the richer peo- 
fill it w ith fleflr and aromatics, and make a kind 
j. puddings, which eat very well. This ripens a 
j'ttle later than the Water Melon, but then it is in 
ea fbn longer, and until the latter end of the au- 
t(a m n . 
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43. Cucumis 
