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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    And, with the well-urg’d energy. of zeal, | Their {pecious, fubtle fophiftry difprov’'d; 300 The importance, the neceflity difplay’d, Of civil armies, freedom’s fureft guard | Nor in the fenate didft-thow only win The palm of eloquence, fecurely bold ; 304, But rear’df{t thy banners, fluttering ‘in the wind : Kent, fromeach hamlet, pour’d her marfhal’d {fwains, To hurl defiance on the threatening Gaul, Tuy foaming coppers well with fewel feed ; For a clear, ftrong, c@tinued fire improves’ _ | Thy mufcovado’s cbjout, and its grain.— 10 Yet vehement heat, prétrafed, will confume Thy veffels, whether from the martial mine, Or from thine ore, bright V ends, they are drawn; Or hammer, ght fufion, give them form. . tf prudence aig thy ftores fhall hold Of well-fiz’d veifels ac plete fupply : 316 For every shout, thy boilers céafe to fkim, (Now Cancér'reddens with the folar ray,) Defeats thy Htoneft purpofes @f gain, R * Wy ’ Nor {mall the rifque, (when piety, or chance, Force thee from boiling to defift) to lave’ 321 Ver. 312. Thy veffels,}_ The veffels, wherein the Cane-juice is reduced to Sugar by coétion, are made of iron or of copper. Each fort hath its advantages and difadvantages, The teache, or {mall- eft veflel from whence the Sugar is laved into the cooler,’ is gene- gally copper.’. When it melts, if can be patched; but, when the large fort of veffels, called iron-furnaces, crack, which they are © ‘too apt to do, no further ufe can be made of them, . ere : Thy
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