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planted tbe cane to Madeira: from Madeira it passed to 
the Canary Islands, where it was entirely unknown; for 
the ‘ ferulas’ of Juba, ‘ quae express® liquorem fundunt potui 
uoundum,’ are euphorbias (the Tabayba dulce), and not, 
as has been recently asserted,* sugar-canes. Twelve sugar- 
manut'actorics (ingenios de azucar) were soon established 
.n the island of Great Canary, in that of Palma, and between 
Adexe, Icod, and Guarachico, in the island of Tenerifle. 
Negroes were employed in this cultivation, and their de- 
scendants still inhabit the grottos of Tiraxana, in the 
Great Canary. Since the sugar-cane has been transplanted 
to the West Indies, and the New World has given maize 
to the Canaries, the cultivation of the latter has taken the 
place of the cano at Tenerifle and the Great Canary. The 
cane is now found only in the island of Palma, near Argual 
and Tazacorte,f where it yields scarcely one thousand quin- 
tals of sugar a year. The sugar-cane of the Canaries, which 
Aiguilon transported to St. Domingo, was there cultivated 
extensively as early as 1513, or during the six or seven 
following years, under the auspices of the monks of St. 
Jerome. Negroes were employed in this cultivation from 
its commencement; and in 1519 representations were made 
to government, as in our own time, that the West India 
Islands would be ruined and made desert, if slaves were 
not conveyed thither annually from the coast of Guinea. 
Por some years past the culture and preparation of sugar 
has been much improved in Terra Pirma; and, as the pro- 
cess of refilling is prohibited by the laws at Jamaica, they 
reckon on the fraudulent exportation of refined smmr to 
the English colonies. But the consumption of the pro- 
vinces of I enezuela, in papelon, and in raw sugar employed 
m making chocolate and sweetmeats (dulces) is so enor- 
mous,^ that the exportation has been hitherto entirely null. 
I he finest plantations of sugar are in the valleys of Aragua 
and of the Tuy, near Pao de Zarate, between La Victoria 
On the origin of cane-sugar, in the Journal de Pharmacie, 1816, 
P-38/. The Tabayba dulce is, according to Von Buch, the Euphorbia 
balsaraifera, the juice of which is neither corrosive nor bitter like that of 
the cardon , or Euphorbia canariensis. 
*t Notice sur la Culture du Sucre dans les Isles Canariennes,” by 
Leopold von Buch. 
