43B 



On the History of Sugar. 



[Dec, 



▼«al. So trvo rcpetc (from rcptto), not 

 repeat ; and levcral .others. 



In retaining tiie e in judgement, 

 abrifJgemfnf, and acknowledgement, he 

 has made a rule of orthography univerfal, 

 as thefe words appeared to lie the only 

 exceptions to it. And this, if I inifiake 

 not, was the way in which Bilhop Lowth 

 wniforinly fpelled them. 



Mr. Pytches, m fuljftitutiiig wholcly 

 for who//y, will, J prcfume, he approved 

 by every Englilli fciiohir. 



I might afk why couni'eUing, level/ing, 

 revel/i\)g, &c. ihould have the / doubled 

 when the accent is not on the fecond 

 fyllal lie of the radical.? But the ortho- 

 graphy of our languai^e is fo indetermi- 

 Bate and fluftnating, that many fiich 

 quellions may he propofed. 



It. may not appear expedient to Mr. 

 Pytches lo depart, in the Vocabulary of 

 his Dictionary, frnrn the general ufage ; 

 but thefe hints may ferve as the foun- 

 dation of foine remarks in his Prolego- 

 mena. 



Permit me once more to aflc whether 

 ceiling, if derived from the French lic/, 

 heaven, the upper regions, (liould not 

 be written cicliu!! ; and if derived from 

 the Latin celo, to hide or cover, Ihould 

 not be written celling ? 1 would alfo 

 ■write Maur, a Mauritanian, a nian of 

 black complexion, and not AJoor. 



Mr. Pytches will, I truit, accept thefe 

 ideas thus loofcly thrown together, as a 

 bumble but well-meant endeavour to 

 promote the truly laudable and arduous 

 tindertakingin which he is engaged. 



Zeka=. 



>To the Editor of the Monthli/ Magazine. 



SIR, 



ALLOW me to join the number of 

 yom- Querifts, in licarch of fome 

 few particulars relating to the hiftory and 

 jntrodu(5tion of Sugar. The time \\hen 

 it was firft refined I have not been able 

 to difcover ; though the art fcems to 

 Rave been known at leall as early as the 

 reign of Ilcnry \'IIT. A roll of provi- 

 fions of that period mentions, 

 *' Two loavet of fiigar, weighing IC lb. 12 07.. 



at ?d. per Id. 

 ^Ir. Whitaker however, in the Hiftory of 

 Whalley, p. 109, quotes an earlier in- 

 ftance, in 1197, from a computus of 

 Whalley Abbey. 



" Prvjfieait inrtlat, «t al, ffeljut. xiv*." 



A manufcript letter from Sir Edwarr! 

 Wotton to IjOrd Coliham, dated Calais, 

 INIarch 6th, 154(3, advertlfcs him that 

 Sir Edward had taken up for his lordfliip 

 twentv-h\e fugar loaves, at fix (liiliings a 

 loaf, " whiche is eightc pence a ponnde.'' 



Mr. Whitaker's authority feeins to 

 place the refmiog of fugur anterior to 

 the difcoverv of America. 



Yours, An Antiquary. 



To the Editor of the Moiithli/ Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN a country like ours, where civiliza- 

 tion and improvement of every fpe- 

 cies have made fuch ru[)id and extcnllve 

 advances, it is both fmgular and repre- 

 henhble that any of its inhabited parts 

 Ihould be deficient in that prime iiecelfary 

 of life, and medium of health, cleanli- 

 nefs, and comfort, pt/n'. (md good icuttr. 

 Nor have I often found any legitimate or 

 valid excufe for the defaulters, who are, 

 in many parts, indolently content to 

 drink in the fummcr feafon from the cor- 

 rupt, ftagnated, and muddy bottoms of 

 pools and ditches, when they might en- 

 joy the pure, cool, and luxurious be\er- 

 age of the well, would they be at the 

 pains and the ])rolitable expence to dig 

 one. They w-ho have fo lirtle fenfibility 

 of talle and cleanlinels, cannot be ("up- 

 pofed much alive to the certain, although 

 gradual and imperceptible, ill confe- 

 quonces to their own health, and tliat »{ 

 their fervanis and animals, from the con- 

 flant internal ufc of foul water. Intcr- 

 mittcnts, liver comjilaintH, colics, fluxes, 

 and putrid fevers, may indeed now and 

 tlicn play their parts ; but the patients 

 are too wife and too religned to trouble 

 their heads about caufes, and as to cf- 

 icdts, they are the proper atiair of the 

 village doctor. As to making tea or beer 

 with a fubliitute couipofcd of one part 

 water, and the relidue of earthy and 

 animal matter, the e.ivriaof infefts, the 

 fpawn of frogs and toads, and the dung 

 of hearts, it is, I will acknowledge, a 

 mere nothing to thofe accuftomed to it, 

 and that which does not innnediately 

 poifon may fatten ; but the firangcr and 

 the guell may not wifli to volunteer the 

 riik of being either poifoned or fattened, 

 To thofe who arc difpofed to view this 

 matter in a ferions light, and who love 

 plenty of pure water, not only for inter- 

 nal ul'e, but for the ncceffary and de- 

 lightful purpofcs of bodily ablution, an 

 ■I enquiry 



