300 ~ Sketch of the Hiftory of Sugar. 
** fieges of Albaria Marra and Archas, and fuffered 
‘* dreadful hunger, were much refrefhed hereby.” 
The fame author,‘ in the account of the reign 
of Baldwin, mentions eleven camels, laden with 
fugar, being taken by the Crufaders, * fo that it 
mu{t have been made in confiderable quantity. 
‘ Jacobus de Vitriaco mentions, 7? that ‘ in 
‘* Syria reeds grow that are full of honey, by which 
‘ he underftands a {weet juice, which by the prel- 
‘“‘ {ure of a fcrew engine, and concreted by fire, 
‘* becomes fugar.” ‘[his is the firft account I have 
met with of the employment of heat or fie in the 
making of fugar. . 
About the fame period, £* Willermus Tyrenfis 
fpeaks of fugar as made in the neighbourhood of 
‘Tyre, and fent from thence to the fartheft parts of 
the world. 
Marinus Sanutus mentions, §* that in the coun- 
tries fubject to the Sultan, fugar was produced in 
large quantity, and that it Jikewife was made in 
C yprus, 
* Gefta Dei, p. 353. 
+ Sunt autem calamelli, calami pleni melle fucco dul- 
ciffimo, ex quo quafi in torculari compreffo, et ad ignem 
condenfato, prius quafi mel pofthec quafi Zuccara efficitur, 
Geft. Dei, p. 1075. 
t Per inftitores ad ultimas orbis partes deportatur. 
Gelt. Dei, p. 835, 
§ Marin, Sanut. L. I. Part, I. Cap, 2. —in parte fecun- 
da Geft. Dei. 
A TAL, 2 1124, 31124, 44906, 
