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, and has a very firm colour; for which reaon it is commonly ued to mark linen with. This is done, by covering the eed with the cloth, and pricking out the letters with a pin; the juice filling up the punctures, tains the form of the letters o durably, that they are not to be wahed out, only decaying with the cloth.

The mountain pear is found growing only on barren heights, or on the ides of teep precipices; it grows on a tall, fluted-like talk, that has the appearance of a well-wrought, fluted, lender pillar, full of trong, harp prickles. The fruit is of the ize of a pippin, its kin is of a beautiful crimon colour; when this pear is cut open, it preents an innumerable quantity of fine black eeds, which are covered with a juicy pulp of the ame colour as the kin, its tate is much like that of a trawberry; by which name the fruit is ometimes called. Pine