298 Sketch of the Hiflory of Sugar. 
It does not appear, that any of the above men- 
tioned writers knew of the method of preparing 
fugar, by boiling down the juice of the reeds to a 
confiftence. It is alfo thought, the fugar they had 
was not procured from the fugar cane in -ufe at 
prefent, but from another of a larger fize, called 
_ Tabarzet* by Avicenna, which is the Arundo Arbor 
of Cafpar Bauhin, the Saccar Mambu of later 
writers, and the Arundo Bambos of Linneus. This 
yields a fweet milky juice, and oftentimes a hard 
cryftallized matter, exactly vefembling fugar, both 
in tafte and appearance. 
_ The hiftorians of the Crufades make the next 
mention of fugar of any that have fallen under 
my obfervation. 
The author of the Hiftoria * Hierofolymitana 
fays, that the Crufaders found in. Syria certain reeds 
called Cannameles, of which it was reported a kind 
of wild honey was made; but does not fay that he. 
faw any fo manufactured. 
Albertus 
’ * Some of the Writers fay, that it was fo called from 
the name of a place, Laxag Tafaglsc, Toros elu nads- 
peeves ag Lugizv. Conflantinus a Secretis, MS. quoted 
from Du Cange Glofs, Grec. The word Tabarzet fignifies 
white, and is tranflated, by Du Cange, Saccar Album, 
Herbclot fays, that the Perfians called by that name the 
hardeft and moft refined fugar. Bibliothéque Oricntale, 
p: 810, 7 
% + Pars fecunda, p. 595. 
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