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Some account of Batavia

Ayer Mauwar is more pleasant to the smell than the taste, in the latter resembling something the Conserve of Roses as in the former the fresh scent of those flowers,
22. Pomegranate is the same fruit in England & every where else that I have met with it, in my opinion but ill repaying any one who takes the trouble of breaking its tough hide, 
23. Durion in shape resembles something a small Melon, but has a skin coverd over with sharp conical spines, whence its name Dure, signifying in the Malay language a spine; this fruit when ripe, divides itself longitudinaly into 7 or 8 compartments, each of which contains 6 or 7 Nuts, not quite so large as chestnuts, coated over with a substance both in colour & consistence, resembling much very thick cream, this is the delicate part of the fruit which the natives are vastly fond of, but few Europeans at first however can endure its taste, which resembles sugard cream mixd with onions, the smell also prejudices them much against it, being most like that of rotten onions, 
24 Nanca  calld in some parts of India Jack, has like the Durion

 

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