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NATURAL HISTORY. , 
them in ciflvs and bales for exportation, — 
Thefe currants are likewife brought from 
feveral parts of the Levant; but the fort 
we moilly life, courts from the iflands near 
the Morea. The people near Zant fuppofe 
we ufe them in dying inftead of eating, lire 
raifms fold alfo by our grocers are grapes 
from vines growing in this country, and 
which are dried ahd packed in a fimilar 
manner to the currants, but with the differ- 
ence of their not being floned. Some in- 
deed aflert that, before they expofe thefe 
vine branches to dry in the fun, they are 
firlt dipped into a certain liquor prepared 
for the purpofe. 
POMEGRANATE-TREE. 
HIS tree grows both wild and cultured. 
i. Ihe branches of the fird are fmall, an- 
gular, and armed with thorns. The bark 
is red; the leaves ‘fmall, like the myrtle; 
and the flower is large, of a beautiful garner, 
and compofed of feveral leaves reprefenting 
a little bafl-tet of flowers. The cup is ob- 
long, purpliflr, and in form like a bell. — 
From this bloflom is produced a fruit, which 
grow.s into a large round apple with a thick, 
l.mooth, brittle rind, adorned with a purple 
cup. d'his apple is called the pomegranate, 
which is too well known in our elegant de- 
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