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less strong ; it requires seven maunds of Pooree 

 cane -juice to produce as much goor or inspissated 

 juice as six maunds of the Cadjoolee. Much of 

 this description is taken to the Calcutta markets 

 and eaten raw. 



(3) The white variety, which grows in swampy 

 lands, is light- colored, and grows very high. Its 

 juice is more watery, and yields a weaker sugar, 

 than the Cadjoolee* However, as a great portion of 

 Bengal consists of low grounds, and as the upland 

 canes are liable to suffer from drought, it may be 

 advisable to encourage the cultivation of this sort, 

 should the sugar manufactured from it be approved 

 in itself without relation to the produce of other 

 canes, in order to guard against the effect of dry 

 seasons. Experience alone can determine the 

 advisability of encouraging cultivation of this des- 

 cription of cane. 



Besides the foregoing, several kinds of sugarcane 

 are now known to the Indian planter, of which 

 one, the China sugarcane, was considered by 

 Dr. Roxburgh to be a distinct species, designated 

 by him saccharum sinenses. It was introduced into 

 India in 1796 by Earl Corn wallis, as being superior 

 to the indigenous varieties. It is characterized by 

 a hardness which effectually resists the process of 

 crushing by the country mills ; but this quality is 

 essentially desirable, inasmuch as it enables the 

 cane to withstand the attack of white-ants, swine, 



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