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 Pine apples grow in Dominica to a great ize, and are in general very juicy, but they are not fo good as in mot other ilands, owing to the too great moilure of the ground, which makes them grow too luxuriant and watry. Pine apples liced, covered with brown ugar, and left ome time to drain out their juice, make an excellent drink, after being trained, and et by for a time in bottles.

The roe apple is chiefly eteemed for its fine cent, which reembles that of the flower after which it is called. It is, however, eat by many, but is reckoned unwholeome; being put up with linen, it gives it an agreeable cent, equal to that of lavender.

The tar apple, o called from the blooms of the tree which bears it, reembling a tar, is a fine fruit, of the ize and hape of a large plumb, of a purple colour; and its juice is of an