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 The citrons are large, but are chiefly valuable for their rinds, as with them are made the bet kind of weetmeats.

The haddocks are of two orts, the one white in the inide, the other red; they are a large fruit, ome of them being as big as a good ized muk-melon; but the red ort of them is mot admired. The juice is contained in eparate diviions of a thin, kin-like ubtance, as tranparent as diamonds, and which have much the look of them, finely quared and polihed. It has a weet tate, tinctured with a bitter, and when the fruit is ripe is very agreeable, and reckoned a good addition to a glas of Madeira wine after dinner. The rinds of them alo make good weetmeats.

The water lemon is a fine fruit, of the hape and ize of a dunghill fowl's egg. The rind of it is of a bright yellow colour, the inide