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A True andExaS Hijiory 



[ venue of Sugars, that grow on the Earbadoesfor twenty months, and 

 i accounted there, upon the Hand, at the Bridge. But if you will run 

 the Hazards of the Sea,as all Marchants doe^and bring it for England, 

 it will (ell in London,fori2 d. the pound, and To 'tis doubled again^ 

 ! and then it will amount to 6195600. and in two months time more it 

 ! will be in England.Now you fee what a vaft Revenew this little fpot of 

 j ground can produce in 2 2 months time. And fo I have done with this 

 I plantjOnely one touch more,to conclude with all^as Mufitians, that firft 

 I play a Preludium, next a Leffon, and then a Saraband 5 which is the 

 life and fpirit of all the reft. So having played you a Ihort [Preludium, 

 to this long and tedious leffon of Sugar and Sugar-making, I do think 

 fit to give you a Saraband, with my beft Touches atlaftjwhich fhall be 

 only this, that as this plant has a faculty, to preferve all fruits, that 

 grow in the world, from corruption and putrifadtion ^Soit has a ver- 

 tuCjbeing rightly applyed, to prelerve us men in our healths and for- 

 tunes too. Doftor Butler one of^the moft learned and famous Phyfitians 

 that this Nation, or the wo ; Id everbred, was wont to (ay that. 



If Sugar can preferveboth Peares and rlnmbr^ 

 why can it not preferve as well our Lungs ? 



And that it might work the (ame effed onhim(elf, healwayes drank 

 in his Claret wine, great ftore of the beft . refin'd Sugar, and al(b pre- 

 (cribed it (everal way es to his Patients, for Colds, Coughs, and Ca 

 tarrs5which are difea(es, that reign much in cold Climates, eipecially 

 in Hands, where the Ayre ismoyfter then in Continents j and (b much 

 for our Health. 



Now for our fortunes,they are not onely preferv'd, but made by the 

 powerful operation of this plant. 



Colonel James Drax^ whole beginning upon that Hand, was found- 

 ed upon a ftock not exceeding 900 I. fterling, has raifed his fortune 

 fuch a sheight, as I have heard him (ay, that he would not look 

 towards England,with a purpofe to remain there, the reft of his life, 

 till he were able to purcha(ean eftate of ten thou(and pound land 

 yearly, which he hop'd in few years to accomplifti, with what he was 

 : then owner ofjand all by this plant ofSugar. Colonel Thomas Modi- 

 ford^ has often told me, that he had taken a Refolution to himfelf^ 

 I not to (et his face for England, til he had made his voyage, and imploy 

 I ment there, worth him an hundred thoufand pounds fterling^ and all by 

 \ this Sugar plant. And thefe, were men of as percing (ights, and 

 [ profound judgments,as any I have known in that way of management, 

 t Now if fuch Eftates as the(e,may be railed, by the well ordering this 

 plant, by Induftrious and painful men, why may not (iich eftates, by 

 carefol keeping, and orderly and moderate expending, be preierv'd 

 in their pofterities, to the tenth Genetatiori , and by all the fweetNe 

 gotiation of Sugar ? 



One Vegetable we have on the Hand, which will neither become 

 the name of a Tree, or a plant, and that is a Withe 3 which is in fome 

 refpeft, the harmfulleft weed that can grow 5 for it pulls down all 

 that it can reach to. Canes, and all other (mall plants, it makes nothing 



of. 



