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fe&, I cut down the green canes, and 
having by an awkward procefs (not pof- 
feffing the means of preflure by roller or 
ferew) extracted a fufficient quantity of 
the juice, with which they then abounded, 
I foon reduced it, by the fimple procefs 
‘of boiling, to a rich fyrup. 
This was tafted by fome Weft India 
planters, and owned to be very much like 
the fugar-cane juice, previous to granu- 
tie ees Peers 
Tation ; alfo by adiftiller of eminence, who 
‘faid, if it did not take up too much water 
_ to break it down, it might be found of 
great ufe in his art. One ingenious gen- 
-tleman thought it-might be converted into 
beer; ‘another, that it might compofe 
wine; and by all who have tafted it, it 
has been acknowledged to be a pure fy- 
rup. : 
In this manner the little at firft made 
has been in a great meafure diffipated ; 
but I have ftill fome fmall quantity by me, 
‘that I have kept for fixteen months with- 
out any apparent alteration. AS 
Thus, that a rich fyrup may be ex- 
~traéted from the cane of the American 
wheat, or Turkey corn, is afcertained; 
whether fugar can be produced, mufi re- 
main to be tried by thofe who underftand 
that procefs, and poflefs the’ neceflary 
apparatus; and it is alfo as clear that it 
‘may be eafily raifed in this country. 
During all this time not having found oze 
perfon who has even conjectured the nature 
of the plant from whence I extracted this 
fyrup, I think I have reagpn to conclude 
that it has not hitherto been thus applied 
by aay one but my felf. 
If it fhould appear that I am miflaken, 
it will give me no concern; but a great 
deal of gratification will it afford, if this 
{weet fhould witimateiy be found ufeful, 
by enabling us to raife fome of that. pro- 
duce, which is now only procured’ by the 
continual deportation of the helplefs and 
unhappy inhabitants of Africa. 
Your moft obedient humble fervant, 
Brybap/gaie, G. CUMBERLAND. 
Egham, Surrey, March 1, 1800. 
—e oe 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PSHE true folution of the quettion pro- 
it pofed by a correfpondent on the paf- 
fage in Virgil, Nihil ifte wec aufus nec po- 
tuit, is to be found in the following well- 
known peculiarity of the Latin janguage ; 
that after a negative a diftribution is ge- 
nerally made, not by aut or wel repeated, 
but by wec or neque. Corn, Nep. de Ti- 
snoleon: Nihil unquam xegse infolens me- 
Letter from Mr. Cumberland —Mr. Cogan. 

[Aprilt, 
que gloriofum ex ore ejus exiit. Plaut. 
Trin. v. 97. Neque de illo quicquam ne- - 
que emeres neque venderes. Schell. Prz- 
cepta Stili bene Latini, vol. i. p. 291. ed. 
Sec. Prilci rae nec (neque )—nec (neque) 
premittunt fépe vocabulum negans, v.c. 
nullus, nikil, non, &c. Cic: Mil. Nox 
pofjum reliqua nec cogitare nec feribere. 
This peculiarity feems not to have been 
prefent to the mind of the great Bentley, 
when on the Andria of Terence, aét i. 
fc. n. v. ult. he wrote the following note, 
Vera fine dubio et vetufta illa leétio eft 
neque haud, non neque hoc : Sic Plautus ter 
quaterque, Nofter iii. 3, 31. At ego zon 
poffe arbitror, zegue illum hane perpetuo 
habere, #eque me perpeti, 
Allow me to remind your correfpondent- 
who propoles an ingenious interpretation 
of Virg. Ec. I; 54. of a pafflage in the 
fEneid. I, 602, ‘magnum que fparfa per 
orbem,”’ which will thew that the genius of 
the Latin language is not violated by the - 
ellipfis of the verb ef after depafia. 
While T have my pen in my hand allow 
me to-detain your claflical readers another 
moment, to propofe a correétion of a paf 
face in Homer, Il. XXII. v. 346. for 
ar yop wus read at yae as. See. Odyff. XV. 
156. and in vindication of the metre 
Hl. XIV. 2x. 
emendation, whether approved or not, 
will be inftantly underftood on reading the a 
a ug 
paflage. Tam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Che/buut, Feb. 23, 1800, E. Cocan. 
eS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
[Communicated by Da. BEDDOES. } 
SIRs ree a 
CI OON after my 
K)) was publithed in the Monthly Maga- 
zine, 1¢ accurred to me that the epithet 
(4igh)is applied to the word time as well 
as iyde. oe 
Ex. Itis sigh time to do a thing. \ 
In Chaucer may be found many exam. 
ples in which fyde was ufed to mean time. 
Ex. Meal-tyde for dinner-tme. 
+ 
My reafons ior believing that ¢yde,thovgh © 
it fignifies time, is the fame word as tyde, 7 
uled to expre{s the 77/2 and fall of the'fea, @ 
Magazine of lait 
may be {een in your 
May. 
. 
1 
Allowing it to be true that the epithet — 
o 
Sich uled of the tyde of the-fea, has been ” 
retained with this word when it. means 
time; I thall be glad to fiad in your Ma- 
gazine a folution of ifs meaning in its lats 
~~ 
ter fituation (as applied to time), and to © 
be informed why it may not be found Jew.) 
time ag well as /gh-time te doa thing. 
r . 
By the critical fcholarthe — 
paper on the word tyde 

