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 Englih apples; and o very refrehing is the cent of thee fruits, that many people uffer them to decay on their ide-boards, for the ake of their agreeable mell.

The appadilla is of the ize and make of a bergamot pear, its juice is of a gluey nature, and of a weet tate. The tree which bears it reembles a pear-tree, and its timber is very erviceable for mills, or to make cartwheels of.

The pomegranates in Dominica are not o large as thoe brought to England from other countries; but they are flehy, weet, and good, when thoroughly ripe. They bear a delightful carlet-coloured bloom, which, in ize and make, is very like the flowers called blue-bottles; and the kin, or hell of the fruit, being boiled into a, is given to perons afflicted with the flux. The