‘WAVURAL HISTORY 40). are 
tain a porous fubftance, of which the fugar is made. 
When they are mature, the canes aré cut off, at the 
firft joint from the ground ; and are laid in heaps, like 
our fheaves of corn in harveft time: Being cleared 
_ from their leaves, they are tied in bundles, and car- 
ried to the mills, which prefs out their juice: This 
is put into boilers, in order to evaporate the watery 
_ particles, fo as to let nothing but the fugar fubfide. 
Phé fugar is then cleared, by a mixture of ingredi- 
ents, adapted to the purpofe of fining and preparing 
it for graining. Whileit is boiling, the fcum, which 
rifes in great quantities, is clearly taken from the 
-furface, until the fugar is ready to be emptied in the 
cooiers ; from whence it is again fhifted into earthen 
pots, with holes in their bott6éms, which drain the 
molaffes into other pots, placed beneath: The latter 
#s an entire month in feparating itfelf from the fugar ; 
which is then put into cafks, or hogfheads for tranf- 
portation. The fugar.cane, in England, is fo tender 
as not to admit of being reared without artificial heat. 
itis, however, preferved as a great curiofity, in the 
gardens of thofe who keep hot houfes, for the pur- 
pofe of having fuch curious and exotic productions 
of nature. ; 

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Hohe MEMEMIG424— 
NUTMEG anv MACE TREES. 
Normecs are diftinguifhed by the fexual dif- 
ference of male and female ; but the latter is the moft 
ufefiul; and therefore moft valwable. The male ts 
tong and large; the female is round and {mall, which 
only grows in. improved or cultivated lands: While 
the males, growing f{pontaneoufly in woods and for- 
efts, are called by the Dutch, the wild nutmegs. The 
tree which produces the female, or beft nutmeg, is as 
“Wares waa pear tree, and’has leaves fhaped like thofe 
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