296 Sketch of the Hiftory of Sugar. 
Arrian,* in his Periplus * of the Red Sea, {peaks 
of the honey from reeds, called Sacchar (Zeug) as 
one of the articles of trade between Ariace and 
Barygaza, two places of the’ hither India, and cae / 
of the ports:‘on' the Red Sea. 
Aelian,” in his natural Hiftory, fpeaks of a sis 
of honey, which was preffed from reeds, that grew 
among the’ Prafii, a people \that lived near ‘the 
Ganges. By 
Tertullian ’® alfo fpeaks of fugar,-in his book De 
Iudicio Dei, as a kind of honey procured from 
canes.f  ~ 
Alexander Aphrodifeeus {* appears to have. been 
acquainted with fugar, which was, in his time, 
regarded as an Indian production. He fays, ‘+ that 
$+ what the Indians called fugar, was a concretion 
{$ of 
quibus Saccharum exprimitur vel coquitur. Et fortafle 
Cannas pro Saccharo ipfo pofuit. Sed qui Ebofite illi, 
haétenus apud neminem invenimus, Populi fortafle funt, 
Indiz, ubi facchayum potiflimum nafcitur, Stern. Thef. 
‘Vox Canna. Leétio’ autem dubia eft, Vide Not, 
“Marxranpi tn hunc locum. 
* Meh: ro naropuvoy To Acyopevoy Laxwer, Page 150, 
Ed, Amftelod, 1683, 8vo. 
+ Mella viridanti confragrant pinguia canna, TERTUL- 
Lian. de Fudicio Dew. 
t+ Arex. ApPRopisat, Lib. II. Probl. 79. 
9 A.D.145- 2 A.D. circ, 145. 3 A.D. 195¢ 
4 A.D. 212, 
