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with distinct size, shape, color, & flavor. The three kinds named are especially delicious. They are filled with a delicate meat full of succulent juice that is very refreshing.

They are sold very cheaply, several for a cent, and almost everyone, native & foreigner enjoys them. The junk dealer is here with his motley assortment of odd fragments of every concievable article of iron so apparently past the days of its usefulness that it is a mystery what use can be made of it yet these queer fragments must serve some use or they would not be found for sale. One man had a square yard or more covered with a variety of knives- Under a rude awning an old woman sold little packets of dried herbs for medicines and near by were the wood sellers who sat behind small piles of faggots - a cents worth in some & a quartilla (3 cts) in others.

On a corner a dried up old man with a pair of aniquated balances sold a grimy quality of salt.