ANTIQUITIES, 
and sent from thence to the farthest 
parts of the world. 
, Marinus Sanutus mentions, that 
in the countries subject to the Sul- 
tan, sugar was produced in large 
quantity, and that it likewise was 
made in Cyprus, Rhodes, Amorea, 
Marta, Sicily, and other places 
belonging to the Christians. 
Hugo Falcandus, an author who 
wrote about the time of the em- 
peror Frederic Barbarossa, speaks 
of sugar being in his time produced 
in great quantity in Sicily. It ap- 
pears to have been used in two 
states; one wherein the juice was 
boiled down to the consistence of 
honey, and another where it was 
boiled farther, so as to forma solid 
body of sugar. 
he foregoing are all the passages 
that have occurred to my reading 
on this subject. They are but 
few and inconsiderable, but may 
save trouble to others, who are 
willing to make a deeper inquiry 
into the history of this substance. 
Fan. 24) 1790, 
Account of Poetry in Scotland, during 
the Sixteenth Century, From Dr. 
Henry’ s History of Great Britaiz. 
InScotland, poetry, such as Chau- 
cer might acknowledge, and Spenser 
imitate, was cultivated in a lan. 
guage superior to Chaucer’s. Dun- 
ar and Douglas were distinguished 
poets, whose genius would have re- 
flected lustre on a happier period, 
and whose works, though partly 
obscured by age, are perused with 
pleasure even in a dialeét consigned 
to rustics, Dunbar, an ecclesiastic, 
at least an expectant of church pre- 
ferment, seems to have languished 
[459 
at the court of James IV, whose 
marriage with Margaret of England 
he has celebrated in the Thistle 
and the Rose ; ‘an happy allegory, 
by which the vulgar topics of an 
epithalamium are judiciously avoid- 
ed, and exhortation and eulogy de 
licately insinuated. ‘The versifica- 
tion of the poem is harmonious, 
the stanza artificial and pleasing, 
the language copious and selected, 
the narrative diversified, rising of.“ 
ten to dramatic energy. The poem 
from its subjeét is deseriptive, but 
Dunbar improves the most luxu- 
riant description by an intermix- 
ture of imagery, sentiments, and 
moral observation. The following 
is a specimen : 
The purpour sone, with tendir 
bemys reid, 
In orient bricht as angell did ap- 
peir, 
Throw goldin skyis putting up his 
heid, 
Quhois gilt, tressi schone so 
wondir cleir, 
That all the world tuke comfort, 
fer and neir, 
To luke upone his fresche and bliss. 
full face, 
Doing all sable fro the heavenis 
chace, 
And as the blissful sonne of cher- 
arcley 
The fowlis sung throw comfort of 
the licht ; 
The burdis did with open vocis cry, 
O luvaris fo, away thow dully 
nicht, 
And welcum day that comfortis 
every wicht ; 
Hail May, hail Flora, hail Aurora 
schene, 
Hail princes Nature, hail Venus, 
Luvis quene, 
The 
