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| which has @ property beyond them all; and that is the Sugdr-Cane, 
_| which though ic has but one fingle tafte, yet, that full {weetrefs has 
|fuch a benign faculty, as to preferve all the reft from corruption , 
| which, without it, would taintand become rotten; and not Only the 
of. And that I may the more.fully and amply fet her off , I will give 
| Of September, 1647. we were informed, partly by thole Planters we 
_ | found there, and partly by our own obfervations, that the great work 
| of Sugar-making , was but newly prattifed by the inhabitants there. 
{Some of the moft induftriows men, having gotten Plants from Fer- 
| and finding them to'grow, they planted more. and more, .4s they 
4 gtew and multiplyed on the place., till they had fuch.a confiderable 
j Humber, as they were worth the while to fet. up avery {mall Ingenio, 
‘}the fecrets of the work being not well underftood., the Sugars they 
| years.Bur they | LT OUES LIOR RAN PEACE ZS 
_ | tleto mend;, and by new directions from Bra/i/,fometimes by rangers, 
‘| and now and then by their own people, (who being covetous of the 
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of the Ifland of Barbadoes. 
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e they were planted there by the great Gardiner of the World. Yet,/ | 
there is.one brought thither as a {tranger, from beyond the Line, 
fruits of this Tiland, but of the world, which isa {pecial preheminence! 
due to this Plant, above all others, that the earth or world can boatt 
you all the obfervations made, from my_firft arrival on the Ifland, 
When planting there, was but in its, infancy, and but faintly under- 
j {tood, to the time I left the place, when it was grownto a high per-} 
fe@ion. gee : 
Atthetime we landed on thisIfland , which was in the begianing 
watbock, a place in Bralil, and made tryal of them at the Barbadocss 
and fo make tryal what Sugar could be made upon that foyl. But , 
ding their errour 
made hosed d inconfiderable, and little worth , for two or three 
ev fir their errours-by thei 4 actice.beaarlra it- 
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culars, and forthe general good of the. vyhole Ifland) vyere content 
fometimes to make'a voyage thither, to improve their knovvledge in 
a thing they fo much defired. Being now.made much abler to make 
| their queries; of the fecrets of thatmyftery, by how much their ofteii 
failings, had put themto often {tops and nonpluffes in the work:, And 
| nain 
| points, that much conduced to the work; viz, The manner of Plan- 
