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 the water lemon, but the juice of it is not o weet.

The ourop is a fine fruit, large, and much of the hape of an heart. When unripe, it is of a brown colour, and its kin is covered with raied points like prickles, but they are not harp. When ripe, it is of a fine green colour, the points fall off, and the kin is quite mooth. It is a very wholeome fruit, in tale reembling fine cotton dipped in yrup, with a little tincture of acid, of a very agreeable muky flavour, and much recommended in fevers.

The fruit and the leaves of the ourop have a very ingular quality in them, for the fruit will rot on the ground without the leat viible appearance of worms, although mot animals and birds are very fond of it; and the leaves being cattered in a room infeted with fleas, oon clears it of thoe troubleome guets, by the