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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    — Not purple Enna, whofe irriguous lap, Strow’d with each fruit of tafte, each flower of ov Semel, jj .) ‘ 65 Sicilian Proferpine, delighted, fought ; Can vie, bleft Ifle, with thee.—Tho’ no foft found Of paftoral ftop thine echoes e’er awak’d ; Nor raptured poet, loft in holy trance, Thy Streams arrefted with enchanting fong : 70 Yet virgins, far more beautiful than fhe Yet probity, from principle, not fear, circumftances ; for, though the Spaniards, who could not bear to be {peétators of their thriving condition, did xcpo..cfs them- felves of the ifland, yet they were foon obliged to retire, end the colony fucceeded better than ever. One reafon for this was, that it had been agreed between the two nations, that they fhould here remain neutral, whatever wars. their mocher-coun- tries might wage againft each other in Europe, ‘This was a wile regulation for an infant fettlement; but, when King James ab- dicated the Britifh throne, the French fuddenly ro.e, and,drove out the uaprepared Englith by force of arms. Vhe French colonifts of St. Chriftopher had {eon reafon, however, to re- pent their impolitic breach of faith; for the expelled planters, being affifted by their countrymen from the neigibouring iflesy and iupported by a formidable fleet, foon recovered, not only their loft piantations, but obliged the French totally to abandon the ifland. After the treaty of Ryfwick, indeed, fome few of tho:e among them, who had not ob:ained fettlements in Mar- tinico and Hiffaniola, returned to St. Chriftopher: But the war of the partition foon after breaking out, they were. finally expelled, and the whole ifland was ceded in Sovereignty to the crown of Great-Britain, by the treaty of Utrecht. Since that . time, St. Chriftopher has gradually improved, and it is now at the heighth of perfection. ‘Che Indian name‘of St. Chriftopher is Liamuiga, or the Fertile Ifland. : Ver. 71. yet virgins, far more beautiful] The inhabitants of St. Chriftopher look whiter, are lefs fallow, and enjoy finer complexions than any of the dwellers on the other iflands. A€uates ¢ te,
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