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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 *t 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 in- 

 stance "Ordering the oxen not to be muz- 

 zled 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 riot aware that they strictly follow 

 the injunctions of the law in allowing the oxen 

 always to remain unmuzzled. 



"The Sick to take up their beds and walk," 

 which was the command of our Saviour at the 

 time of his miraculous cure; is forcibly 

 brought to our mind by the prevailing habit 



