 | George Forster - India - 1808 - 344 pages
...deiicious flavour, a properly indeed of this fruit in most parts of Persia. It has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which nothing, in hot weather, orafter fatigue, can be more grateful. There is a species of the pomegranate, in Persia, and also in... | |
 | George Forster - Afghanistan - 1808 - 762 pages
...delicious flavour, a property indeed of this fruit in most parts of Persia. It has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which nothing, in hot weather,orafter fatigue, can bemore grateful. There is a species of the pomegranate. in Persia, and... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...spices. See LOWTH'S hai. i. 22. 3888. The pomegranate in most parts of Persia, has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which...or after fatigue, can be more grateful. There is a species there, whose granules are without seed: this is of a superior kind, and generally •caree.... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 pages
...burning climate."f " The pomegranate in most parts of Persia," remarks Forster, " has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which...hot weather or after fatigue can be more grateful."* The practices of modern nations demonstrate the importance of these vegetables and their juices. Hence,... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - Alcoholism - 1840 - 542 pages
...refreshing drink. " The pomegranate in most parts of Persia," remarks Forster, " has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which...nothing, in hot weather or after fatigue can be more grateful."f The use of watermelons in Egypt, is thus adverted to by Hasselquist. " The watermelon serves... | |
 | John Bell - Diet - 1842 - 446 pages
...recommended for the same purpose. The pomegranate in most parts of Persia, says Foster, has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice, than which...hot weather, or after fatigue, can be more grateful. The juice mixed with sugar and water forms a kind of lemonade, which has a very pleasant flavour. The... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - Alcoholism - 1855 - 540 pages
...refreshing drink. " The pomegranate in most parts of Persia," remarks Forster, " has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice,, than which...hot weather or after fatigue can be more grateful."! The use of watermelons in Egypt, is thus adverted to by Hasselquist. " The watermelon serves the Egyptians... | |
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has a thin soft skin, and contains a large quantity of juice,, than which nothing, in hot weather or after fatigue can be more grateful."! 