The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger].

  • James Grainger
Date:
1766
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Credit: The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yeun «5 Woes oa ndieory. ie i, + oS oe pile id SY SO Ae Sree x ¥ y ‘ ; r% J ty, Lite Re RE: PA iC Be ew ik fult of Heereare not the cdc of Fancy. Thus, though I may not be able to pleafe, I fhall ftand fome chance of in- ftru€ting the Reader; which, as it is the nobler end of all poetry, fo fhould it be the principal aim of every writer wie wifhes to be thought a good man. Ir muft, however, be obferved, that, though the general precepts are fuited to every climate, where the Cane will grow; yet, the more minute rales are chiefly drawn from the pra€tice of St. Chriftopher. Some feleion was neceflary; and I could adopt _ no modes of planting, with fuch propriety, as thofe I had feen praétifed in that ifland, | to refide fince I came to the Weft-Indies. I HAVE often been aftonifhed, that fo little has been publifhed on the cultivation groaned under folios on every other branch of rural economy. It were unjuft to fup- pofe planters were not folicitous for the im- . provement ’ ene os
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