The citrons are large, but are chiefly valuable for their rinds, as with them are made the beſt kind of ſweetmeats.
The ſhaddocks are of two ſorts, the one white in the inſide, the other red; they are a large fruit, ſome of them being as big as a good ſized muſk-melon; but the red ſort of them is moſt admired. The juice is contained in ſeparate diviſions of a thin, ſkin-like ſubſtance, as tranſparent as diamonds, and which have much the look of them, finely ſquared and poliſhed. It has a ſweet taſte, tinctured with a bitter, and when the fruit is ripe is very agreeable, and reckoned a good addition to a glaſs of Madeira wine after dinner. The rinds of them alſo make good ſweetmeats.
The water lemon is a fine fruit, of the ſhape and ſize of a dunghill fowl's egg. The rind of it is of a bright yellow colour, the
