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cultivation was yet unknown in Sicily ; but was 

 already common in the island of Cyprus, at 

 Rhodes, and in the Morea *. A hundred years 

 after it enriched Calabria, Sicily, and the coasts 

 of Spain. From Sicily the Infant Henry trans- 

 planted the cane to Madeira^: from Madeira 

 it passed to the Canary islands, where it was 

 entirely unknown ; for the ferulce of Juba (quos 

 expressce liquor em fundunt potui jucundum) are 

 euphorbiums, the tabayba dulce, and not, as has 

 been recently asserted:};, sugar-canes. Twelve 

 sugar-manufactories (ingenios de azucar) were 

 soon established in the island of Great Canary, 

 in that of Palma, and between Adexe, Icod, and 

 Guarachico, in the island of Tenerilfe. Negroes 

 were employed in this cultivation, and their 

 descendants still inhabit the grottoes of Tirax- 

 ana, in the Great Canary. Since the sugar-cane 

 has been transplanted to the West Indies, and 

 the New World has given maize to the Canafies > 

 the cultivation of this latter has taken the place 



* According- to the collection known under the name of 

 Bon'gars, Gesla Dei per Francos (Sprengel, Gesch. der Geogr. 

 Entdeckungen, p. 186). Alexandri Benedicti Opera med. 9 1549, 

 p. I.jG. 



t Ramusio, vol. i, p. 106. 



X On the Origin of Cane Sugar, in the Journ. de Pharmacia, 

 1816, p. 387 The tabayba dulce is, according to Mr. von 

 Buck, the euphorbia balsamifera, the juice of which is neither 

 corrosive nor bitter, like that of the cardan, or euphorbia 



canadensis. 



