"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎٤‎٨‎٧] (٥٦٢/٥٤٠)

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offrich's egg v of a fine orange colour, armed with thick and ftrong
l|)ines, full of a foft white pulp, in which are the feeds, which are flat and
black, of the fize of (ixpence, and as thick as a crown-piece. Thofc feeds >
ground on a ftone with honey, are an excellent laxative in fevers. ^
Tobagco,,
Is too well known, to need a defcription,i
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In the beginning of the rainy feafon, thfe leaves of this plant being-
folded together, rife out of the ground, and when they are gotten to the
height of fix inches, then the item appears, foon afterwards the leaf un
folds, and divides in three feveral parts, , and thefe go again into many other
divifions *, but there is a continuation of the leaf through every fubdivifiort
of the three firft parts. The ftalk grows to two feet or more, and is as *
thick as a maa-s wrift, fucculent,. and of a pale green i fpotted very co-
pioufly with a deep purple colour. The leaves are of a pale, yet bright"
green. The root is a large ball of 10 inches diameter, and round, with^
feveral excrefcences on its furface, each of which becomes a frefh root when ;
planted : it is reddifh on the outfide, and red within, very pungent to the
tongue; but yet the natives boil and make ufe of it, and alfo of the ftalks,^
as a part of their food«
U mbel C o o t c h a. -
This grows almoft ered 5 the leaves on the pinnse are much fmaller, but
more numerous, and of a finer green than thofe of the Nauta or prickly plant; ?
in every thing elfe, as its manner of growing, its fpines and flower, they.,
are. exa&ly alike j the fruit of this I could never meet with^
Go lure.
This runs up a great way-on trees or hedges; the leaf Is of a deep.green, -
fhining, fmooth, and tender. The flower is white, monopetalous, and di
vided in fix parts down the cup; the ftamina are rough double filaments, ■„
in number fix; the antheras on top of the filaments, are bearded like an arrow.
The fruit is an apple of the fhape of a cucumber, and the feeds are like
it: the fruit is firft green, and afterwards of a beautiful bright fcarlet co
lour, or between that and crimfon •, the parrots, and many other birds feed *
on them, yet it is not the bird pepper.—The leaf of this plant when '
young, is exaftly like the leaf of the Phyfical Cucumber, when old, it is >
like the leaf of the Vootra.
Dootra,
This is a garden volubilis.
Car ill a*