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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    Vos fequor, O Graig gentis decus, inque vefris nune 3 Fixa pedum pono preffis vefligia figms ; Non tia certandi cupidus, quam A i amorem, Quod vos imitare aveo. : Yet like them too, I have generally pre- ferred the way of defcription, wherever that could be done without hurting the fubject. Sucn words as are not common in Europe, I have briefly explained: becaufe an obfcure poem affords both lefs plea- 4 fure and profit to the reader. — For the fame reafon, fome notes have been added, which, it is prefumed, will not be difa- - sreeable to thofe who have never been in the Weft-Indies. In a Weft-India georgic, the mention of many indigenous remedies, as well as difeafes, was unavoidable. The truth is, I have
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