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Cities of the Plain

Sodom and Gomorrah, chief of those five cities which, according to the commonly received account, were destroyed by fire account, from heaven, and their sites overwhelmed by the waters of the Dead Sea.

CITRIC ACID (C6H8O7), the acid of lemons, limes, and other fruits. It is generally prepared from lemon-juice, and when pure is white, inodorous, and extremely sharp in its taste. In combina- CIVET It is a native of Asia. The tree has short and stiff branches, oblong-toothed leaves, flowers purple externally, and fruit generally large, warted, and furrowed, having a protuberance at the apex, with a very thick, spongy adherent rind and a subacid pulp. The Romans brought it from Media, where, however, it is not now, if it ever was, indigenous.

It is at present cultivated in gardens in the warmer parts of both hemispheres.

It furnishes oil of citron and oil of cedra.