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Rio de Janeiro

of these I must seperately give my opinion as no doubt it will seem strange to some that I should assert that I have eat many of them & especialy pine apples better in England than any I have met with here Begin then with the pines as the Fruit from which I expected the most they being I beleive natives of this countrey tho I cannot say I have seen or even heard of their being at this time wild any where in this neighbourhood they are cultivated much as we do cabbages in Europe or rather with less care the plants being set between bedds of any kind of garden stuff & sufferd to take their chance the price of them in the Market is seldom above & generaly under a vintain which is 3 halfpence All that Dr Solander & myself tasted we agreed were much inferior to those we had eat in England tho in general they were more Juicy & sweet yet they had no flavour but were like sugar melted in water Their Melins

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