788 DIORCIA HEXANDRIA. Phenix. 
The’ mode of extracting this juice is by removing the low- 
er leaves and their sheaths, and cutting a notch into the pith 
of the-tree near the top, from thence it issues and is conduct- 
ed by a small channel made of a bit of the Palmyra tree 
Jeaf ‘into a pot suspended to receive it. On the coast of Co- 
romandel this Palm juice is either drank fresh from the tree, 
or boiled down into sugar, or fermented for distillation, when 
it gives outa large portion of ardent spirit commonly called 
Paria aruk on the coast of Coromandel. Matts and hankses 
are made of the leaves. 
The Bengalees: call this tree Khujjoor. They also boil 
pee juice into sugar. In the whole Provinceof Bengal about 
fifteen thousand maunds, or about a hundred thousand hun- 
dredweight is made annually, At the age of from seven or 
ten years, when the trunk of the trees will be about four feet 
high, they begin to yield juice, and continue productive for 
twenty or twenty-five years, It is extracted during the cold 
months .of November, December, January, and February ; 
during which period, each tree is reckoned to yield from 
one hundred and twenty to two hundred and forty pints of 
juice, which averages one hundred and eighty pints, every 
tvelve pints or pounds is boiled down to one of Goor or Ja- 
gui, and four of Goor yield one of good powder sugar, so 
that the average produce of each tree is about seven or * 
eight pounds of sugar annually. 
Another statement presented to me, gives a much larger 
produce, viz, the average produce of each tree is sixteen 
-.pints»per\ day, four of which will yield two pounds of mo- | 
‘asses, and forty of molasses will yield twenty-five pounds of 
brown sugar, ‘The difference is so great, that-I cannot well 
‘Teobielle them, but am inclined to yeerot most credit to the 
edie sugar, as it is sents called, is not so sdaneis acm as 
cane sugar, and sells for about one fourth less. — 
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