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Of Arborefcent Plants. Part II. 
(a) Wormi- 
US out of 
Garfias and 
others. 
(b) Pifo,l. 4. 
c. 1. 
CO Hift. 1 . 4. 
c. 1. 
(d) Hiji. of 
Barb. p. 8 6. 
dec. 
(e ) See Bari, 
cle Rcb. Bra- 
fil.p.i 19.dec, 
It grows in Malabar., efpecially about Coromandel, near 
the Sea-fide. In the feveral hollows is found a curdled 
juyee, whereof the Natives make a fort ot Sugar, by the 
/Ethiopians called Tabaxyr, much valued by the Arabians, 
becaufe of the Medicinal Virtue, (a) they at leaft fuppofe it 
to have. In Bantam, the Cane is much ufed for the building 
of their Houfes. 
The SUGAR-CANE. Arundo Saccharina. In Brafile 
called Tacomaxee ; to which place (l>) it was firft trans¬ 
planted from the Fortunate Ijlands. A great Reed about 
Seven or eight feet high, with many Joynts, one at about 
every i foot, and a large clofe Pith 5 out of which, the 
greatell part of the Juyee, whereof the Sugar is made, is 
exprefled. See the Defcnption hereof at large in Pifo (/) 
and Ligon ; [d) together with the way of Planting, gather¬ 
ing and preffing the fame ; and of ordering the exprefled 
Juyee, for the making of feveral forts of Sugar , and 
Brandy: as alfo the Engines, and contrivance of Veflels for 
the fame purpofes. 
The principal knack, without which all their labour 
were in vain, is 111 making the Juyee, when Sufficiently 
boil’d, to kerne or granulate. Which is done, by adding 
to it, a Small 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, Serves, it Seems, to Shackle or Cryftallize 
(which is a degree of Fixation) a very great quantity of 
the Ejfential Salt of this Pla?it. 
In refining the Sugar, the firft degree of purenefs, is 
effected only by permitting the Mol'ofes 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 Second degree 
is procur’d, 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 Separation. And there¬ 
fore, whereas the firft way requires but one Month, this 
requires four. The fineft Sugar of all, (e) is made with 
Lime-Water (and Sometimes Urine) and Whites of Eggs. 
Sugar-Candy (Saccharum cantum, becaufe it fhoots into an- 
;ular Figures) by placing a great many flender flicks acrofs 
a Vetlel of liquid Sugar,for it to fhoot upon. 
That 
