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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    ery 108 «6m THE. SUGAR-CANE, BooklIl. While an the horizon’s, fartheft verge are feen Iflands of different fhape,.and. different fize;, While fail-clad fhips, with their fweet. produce: fraught, _ : Swell on the {training fight ; while near yon rock, On which ten thoufand wings with ceafelefs clang Their airies build, a water-fpout defcends; 546 And fhakes. mid ocean; and while there below; — That'town, embowered: in: the different fhade OF, tamarinds, panfpans, and papaws, o’er which | A double Iris throws her painted’ arch, 559 Shows commerce toiling in each crowded ftreet, And each throng’d ftreet with limpid currents lav’d. -Wuat tho’ no bird of fong, here charms the fenfe With her wild minftrelfy ;. far, far beyond, The unnatural quavers of Hefperion throats! 555 Tho’ the chafte poet of the vernal woods, Ver, 549. panfpans;) See.the notes:on Bock.II. Ver..549. papaws,] This fingular tree, whofe fruits furround: its fummit immediately under the branches: and leaves, like a neck’ lace’ grows quicker than almoft any other in the Weft-Indies. The wood is of no ufe, being fpongy, hollow, and herbacious; how- ever, the bloffoms and fruit make excellent. fweet-meats ; but above all, the juice of the fruitbeing rubbed on a. {pit, will intenerate» new. killed fowls, &c. a circumftance of ‘great confequesce in a climate, where the warmth foon renders whatever meats are at-) tempted to be made tender by: keeping, unfit for culinary purpofes. Nor will it only intenerate frefh. meat; but; being beiled with: falted beef, will render it eafiy:digeftible. Its milky: juice is fome-. times:uled to cure ringworms, It is faid, tlrat the guts of hogs would in time be lacerated, were they to feed’on the ripe wipeeled’ frnit. Its feed is {aid to be anthelmiatic. The botanical name is: Papaya, Lise2 ; ?
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