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DISCOURSE II. 
Of Sugar , Milky and Made Wines. 
CHAP. I. 
Of S U G A R. 
A S Tea without Sugar makes but a 
very ordinary Tipple to moft Peo- 
ple ; and as Tafte rather than Health or 
Conftitution, is confulted in the Ufe of it, 
it may not be amifs to confider it a little 
here, without troubling the Reader with 
any Harangue in a Defcription of the Cane, 
its Culture, or Preparation of its Juice, 
whidi may be met with in abundance of 
Authors : Nor is it needful to enter into 
the feveral Controverlies about it, as whe- 
ther it was known to the Ancients, or whe- 
ther it is a Native of the Eaji or Weji~ 
Indies , &c. 
Labat has made it pretty plain, that it 
is a Native of both Indies but the Spani- 
ards and Portnguefe learning from the Ori- 
entals 
