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 an agreeably weet tale, and of a gluey nature.

The ugar apple is a ingular fruit, about the ize of a middling-ized Englih apple, but in appearance differs from any fruit of that name, as it does alo in quality. The rind of it is croed in diviions, the hape of diamonds in a card, which are coniderably raied above the furrows between each, and tand in regular rows. The outide is of a pale green colour, the inide has a great number of hard, black eeds, which are nearly as big as peas, and are covered with a moit, gritty pulp, which has the tale of ugar; and it is reckoned very wholeome.

The cutard apple is of much the ame nature with the former, only the kin of it is mooth, of a rut colour, and the inide pulp les gritty, reembling in tate a cutard, after which it is called. The