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*‘ While flows the juice mellifluent from the cane, 7 
** Grudge not, my friend, to let thy flaves, each morn, 
“ But chief the fick and young, at fetting day, 
“« Themfelves regale with. oft-repeated draughts 
“ Of tepid nectar, and make labour light '.” 
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That there is fomething in the finer green Teas, that pro- 
duces effects peculiar to itfelf, and not to be equalled by any 
other fubftance we know, is, I believe, admitted by all who» 
have obferved, either what pafles in themfelves, or the accounts 
that others give of their feelings, after a plentiful ufe of this — 
liquor. Nor are the finer kinds of bohea Teas incapable of the 
like influence. They affect the nerves, produce tremblings, 
and fuch a ftate of body for the time, as fubjects it to be agi- 
tated by the moft trifling caufes, fuch as fhuttin ga door too 
“haftily, the fudden entrance even of a fervant, and other the 
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middle of the 12th century. From thence they were tranfplanted into the fouthern 
“provinces of Spain. From Spain they were carried to the-Canary and Madeira Ifles, . 
and at length into the New World. Ludovico Guicciardini, in enumerating the 
goods imported into Antwerp, about the year 1560, mentions the fugar which they 
‘Teceived ftom Spain and Portugal as a confiderable article of import. He defcribes 
that as the product of the Madeira and Canary iflands. Deferitt. de Paefi Baffi, 
p- 180, 181. The fugar-cane was either not introduced into the Weft-Indies at that 
time, or the cultivation’ of it was not fo confiderable as to furnifh an article in com- 
merce. In the middle ages, though Sugar was not raifed in fuch quantities, or 
employed for fo many purpofes, as to become one of the common neceflaries of life, 
it appears to have been.a confiderable article in the commerce of the Italian: States.” 
It is, however, well afcertained, thatthe Sugar Cane is indigenous to South Anierica, 
"ad the Weft Indies. Mofeleyion Sugar, p. 29. 
4 Granger's Sugar Cane, 4to. p. 109. See alfo p. 9» ae tn 
--. “ Dulces bibebant ex arundine fuccos. Lucan. 
MEAG xeeroruaven To Asyoavoy TORK Cpt» _ ARRIAN. 
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