224 Of Arborefcent 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 
JEthyopians called fabdxyr, much valued by the Arabians, 
60 Wormi- becaufe of the Medicinal Virtue, (a) they at leaft fuppofe it 
us out of to have. In Bantam, the Cane is much ufed for the buildinsr 
Garlias and c , • T T - ^"'O 
others. or their Houies. 
The SUGAR-CANE. Arundo Saccharina. In Rrafik 
(ZOPifo, 1.4. called Tacomaxee^ to which place (b) 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 $ out of which, the 
greateft part of the Juyce, whereof the Sugar is made, is 
£ j. 1 4 ' exprefled* See the Defcription hereof at large in Pifo (c) 
(d) Hiji.of and Ligo?i$ (d) together with the way of Planting, gather- 
Barb, p. 85. jn g an j p re 0] n g tne f ame . anc | G f ordering the expreffed 
Juyce , tor the making of feveral forts of Sugar , and 
Brandy : as alfo the Engines, and contrivance of Veffels tor 
the fame purpofes. 
The principal knack , without which all their labour 
were in vain, is in making the Juyce , when fufficiently 
boil'd, to keme or granulate. Which is done, by adding 
to it, a fmall proportion of Lye made with (vegetable ) 
Afhes : 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 Cryftallize 
(which is a degree of Fixation) a very great quantity of 
the F/fential Salt of this Plant. 
In refining the Sugar, the firft degree of purenefs, is 
effected only by permitting the Molofes to drain away 
through a hole at the bottom of the Sugar-Pots 3 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 
s t , eB ari re ^ lures f° ur - The fineft Sugar of all, (e) is made with 
deReb.Bra- Lime-Water (and fometimes Urine ) and Whites of Eggs. 
tii.p.np.&c. Sugar-Candy ( Saccharum cantum, becaufe it fhoots into an- 
gular Figures) by placing a great many flender flicks acrofs 
a Veffel of liquid Sugar, (ox it to fhoot upon. That 
