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it into nets to fish with when they return to 

 their villages, which they do as soon as they have 

 saved a little money ; when others repair to Cal- 

 cutta to supply their places. 



The method of manufacturing sugar is equally 

 simple. The canes are cut, and the juice ground 

 from them on the same spot where they are cul- 

 tivated ; and the dry stalks of the canes, after 

 being expressed, serve for fuel to evaporate the 

 juice to sugar, which is done also in the same 

 place. 



I have often contemplated on the simplicity with 

 which every thing is carried on in India, and I 

 really think that no person of the least observation 

 can reside long in the interior of the country 

 among these people, and read our sacred history, 

 without being forcibly struck with a similarity in 

 the simplicity of their manners and manufactories. 

 For instance " Ordering the oxen not to be 

 muzzled when treading out the corn." The na- 

 tives of India, as the Jews, have the custom of 

 treading out all their grain by means of oxen ; 

 but I am not aware that they strictly follow the 

 injunctions of the law in allowing the oxen always 

 to remain unmuzzled. 



