224 ®f dtrborefcent Plants. Part II. 
It grows in Malabar, efpecially about Coromandel, near 
the Sea- fide. In the feveral hollows is found a curdled 
juyce, whereof the Natives make a fort of Sugar, by the 
JEthyofians called Tabaxyr, much valued by the Arabians? 
(a) Wormi- becaufe of the Medicinal Virtue, (a) they at leait fuppofe it 
us out of to nave> j n Bantam, the Cane is much ufed for the building 
Uarhas am c i • T t r ° 
or their Houies. 
The SUGAR-CANE. Amndo Saccharina. In Brafefe 
CWPifo, 1.4. called Tacomaxee 5 to which place (£) it was firft tranf- 
c * planted from the Fortunate Ijlands. A great Reed about 
feven or eight feet high, with many Joynts, one at about 
every * foot, and a large clofe Pith 5 out of which, the 
greateft part of the Juyce, whereof the Sugar is made, is 
( c ) Hift. 1. 4. ex p re ff ec f, $ ee tne Defcription hereof at large in Pifo (c) 
(d) Hift. of and Ligon , (d) together with the way of Planting, gather- 
Barb. P . 85. anc [ p re (f in g tne f ame . an J 0 f ordering the exprelled 
Juyce , for the making of feveral forts of Sugar , and 
Brandy : as alfo the Engines, and contrivance of Veftels for 
the fame purpofcs. 
The principal knack , without which all their labour 
were in vain, is in making the Juyce , when fufficiently 
boil'd, to kerne or granulate. Which is done, by adding 
to it, a fmall proportion of Lye made with (vegetable ) 
Ajhes : without which, it would never come to any thing 
by boiling, but a Syrup, or an Extract. But a little of 
that Fixed Salt, ferves, it feems, to Shackle or CryftaUize 
(which is a degree of Fixation) a very great quantity of 
the Ffential Salt of this Plant. 
In refining the Sugar, the firft degree of purenefs, is 
efFeclred only by permitting the Molofes to drain away 
through a hole at the bottom of the Sugar-Pots 5 the Pots 
being, all the time, open at the top. The fecond degree 
is procurd, by covering the Pots at the top with Clay. 
The reafon whereof is, for that the Aer is hereby kept out 
from the Sugar, which, in the open Pots, it hardens, be- 
fore it hath full time to refine by feparation. And there- 
fore, whereas the firft way requires but one Month, this 
(e) SeeBzti Tc< ¥ mcs f° ur - The fineft Sugar of all, (e) is made with 
de R.eb. Bra- Lime-Water ( and fometimes Urine ) and Whites of Eggs. 
fd.p.ii<?.&c Sugar- Candy (Saccharum cantum,bccm{c itfhootsinto an- 
gular Figures) by placing a great many llender flicks acrofs 
a VefTel of liquid Sugar Jot it to fhoot upon, That 
