Manual on the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane, and the Fabrication and Refinement of Sugar: Prepared Under the Direction of the Hon. Secretary of the ... the House of Representatives of Jan. 25, 1830 - Softcover

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Excerpt from Manual on the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane, and the Fabrication and Refinement of Sugar: Prepared Under the Direction of the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury, in Compliance With a Resolution of the House of Representatives of Jan. 25, 1830

Concerning the origin of the Sugar Cane, there is some diversity of opinion. While none have doubted that it is indigenous to China, where it has been cultivated for more than twenty centuries, it has been con tended by some, that it existed in South America, Mexico, and even in Louisiana, prior to the discovery of these countries by the Europeans. This opinion appears to be countenanced by the following evidence.

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