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much fugar made from the latter as from the former. 
This follows of courfe ; hut it fhould feem, that upon- 
the return of the rains, the cane fhould recover the wa- 
ter, which the heats of February, March, and April, had 
made it lofe : the reverfe, however, is what in fa£t hap- 
pens; not only the quantity of the juice is lefs, but the 
quality of it is worfe; it contains lefs fugar in it, and 
when the weather is fairly fettled, when the rains are 
frequent and abundant, which generally happens from 
the firft of July to the 1 3th of Auguft, the whole vege- 
tative faculties of the plant feem employed in the pro- 
duction of the arrow, fee oofi, fig. 1. During that time 
the body of the cane is almoft totally deftitute of juice, 
which is carried in great plenty towards the head of it. 
Soon after there comes out from the top of the arrow, a 
thin 
a 100 dans le mois d’Avril, n’y que ces 90 gallons d’Avril donnent autant de 
fucre que les 160 de Janvier: mais il fembleroit qu’au retour des pluyes, la 
canne devroit recouvrer l’eau qu’elle a perdue par le foleil conftant de Fevrier, 
Mars, et Avrilj.c’eft le contraire qui arrive; non feulement le jus diminiie, 
mais fa qualite fe deteriore, il contient meins de fucre, et lorfque le renouveau 
eft tout a fait decide, que les pluyes font frequentes et abondantes, ce qui arrive 
ordinairement du 1 Juillet au 15 d’Aouft, il femble que tousles efforts de la 
vegetation foient confacres a la production de lafleche, v. oop, fig. 1. Le corps 
de la canne eft alors prefque totalement deftitue de fon jus qui fe porte en 
abondance vers la tete de la plante; bientot il fort de fon extremite une tige 
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