Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-02-05
From the Journal Of Commerce.
SUGAR.

i, was FIRST brought into Europe from Arabia
and the east. The-- has been much controyer-
sy anon. writers as TO what kind or species oi
sugar that was Mosey thinks there can be no
doubt that sugar>candy was the first and only
species Of sugar known 10 the European an
clients. |, wos oil the rnanuiac.ure OF China the
most ancient oil the Eastern nsIlons. Raw SUI
gar in after ages found their way into Eurepe
from India and Arabia by The Red Sra. The
commerce in this arliclr previous to 1873 was
carried on by the Yenr,ans who supplied the
markets Of Europe: Even bcfor" The year 99l
the Venr,ians held commercial inter oursr
with Syria and Egypt, and among dates and o.
,her things imported sugars from those coun-
tries. The ar, Of refining sugar was Il ST prac-
used in England in 1914. IiIs but li,te more
than two centuries, however, since it became a
common article of diet 10 that country from
which we derive our origin and our habiis.-
Fo, several centuries before this sugar was
made in Sicily from the sugar cane imported
probably fror the East BY the V'nicians, the
method of propaga'ing ii being b, cuttings
from the top, TIL one only known al the pre-
sen, day The cultivation of the sugar cane
made gradual progress in The course OF Sc
vera centuries, from the Isl nds OF Crete.
Rhodes, Cyprus ard Sicily, into Spain, whore
il was culliN aied in several pro:lhcrs, and
more par.i, ularly in Vaenoia. From Valencia
the cultivation ofthe sugar.caue and he manu-
fdCture of sugar were carried, III the behininS
OF the if cent century, by The Spaniards TO The
{ anary Island,. and the commerce arising
from the sugar, there produced was considers
bic. Bu' prior TO this period tn Portuguese,
IN l4aO. carried the cane and the manu- ac,ure
"f aug r, from the Island Of Sicily and Medei-
IA From those beginnings, the cultivation ni
the sugar-cane, and The ART OF making sugar,
we're extended by differen nations OF EUROPEANS
o the Wtst Indian Islands, and the BraziIs.
On he discovery OF the Western hemisphere
the sugar Cane was found on the continent; and
also in somr Of the Atlantic islands, bat the ar,
Of m aking sugar, il is said, was never prac.i-
scd by the Ahorigines of the West Indian is
ndS, ur'l they were settled by Europeans,
uor by the VI, xicars, or Peruvians, or any o.
III r narIve inhabitants Of South America, pre-
ii us 10 their subjugation by the Spaniards.-
Of this ,htre may be some doubt, with respect
IT, Mexiru, but noI as 10 any other part OF the
continent, or The islands.
From the inc, rect accounts Of the first
Yves, Indian discoveries, il is impossible to as.
certain IN which of the islat DIS the cane was
found, and IN shich il was not We know 1t
was found IL some Of tn m but from modern
"a igators, we have aroofs that il grows spon-
Generously in all tho i,iuds i'll the south Sea -
1t was found in great abundance in all me So
cieiy islands, Foster Islands, aud the Sandwich
Isles; where the natives are perfectly acquaint-
ed with the use oil is expressed juice, but have
no, The krowIrdgr o. making sugar.
SOM plants Of thoss canes were formerly
introduced into he Wet Indies, and Il e ,son-
ishing ircreas Of sugar high those brought
from o aheite, and planned in Jamaica. yielded
over those "f the island, showed that il there BE-
not diffe eut species, >egi adj S as well as ami
mails, may degererAe, and require the impulse
of change 10 iuCirr or rcanImale their vigour
Moseiy al,o informs US. tai the sugdr-cane !!
was found near the mouth Of the Mississippi !
as STATED by FArher Hennepin; ard ths' Francis
Ximenes and II, rnandes and Piso assert rba' il |
as found on tie RIVER ID. La Plata in South |
America.
The foregoing fsots render it clear that the |
sugar-can- is a n,tirr Of he Fast Indies, and
The southern part Of Asia, and also "t the CEN !
trail paris Of America, and the islands If the
Pacific and A'lhn'ic oceans. Caspar Eaugin
and thu rarler botanioa authors called II the
.Ayu.do Sac chnrifsra, or suea--h,aring red
Linneaus, The grrat father Of modern botany
named il Saccharum OGcinarun, and placed it
in his third cas, Tudnd,ia, and order Dgynid,
or in the natural order Of The Gydmna or gras-
ses.
Sugar is an important article Of commerce,
and well worthy the slight notice we have
given il. The cane is cultivated in various
paris Of The globe, but 'hrires best in tropical
regions. Before the acquisition 10 the United
States, Of Louisiana and Florida, sugar was not
a production Of our Own country II Is now a
staple OF some Of the southern states, and the
cultivation Of the cane will increase with the in
crease Of population The staies oil Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Alabama, and the Territory
of Florida will be sugar growing states.
FLonlpa.-We observe IN the late Florida
papers sumo notices Iespeo ting this newly ac-
aured and important territory, which are moi
nnn,eresing dispute has arisen between
it and Georgia respecting the boundary line.
About a million and half Of acres are claimed
BY Georgia within tho boundary of Florida, as
fixed by MIR. El!ico:t and Captain Mixer We
find in he East florida Herald a suggestion Of
no very pacifc nature. It recomn end, the dis
puled .rrri,oly 10 be takrn possession Of by the
Florida militia, and held Pr force for future
IL. rnJil the (ue Il ton of The bnund