China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . asbeen rendered sweet cane,^ has a distinct reference to this is certainly clear that the «w^eet cane or calamus was anarticle of merchandise in ancient times, and, as it is spoken ofas coming from a far distant land, it is equally clear that it wasnot the production of Palestine, or of any contiguous conjecture, however, that it is the sugar-cane of commerce,has, in my opinion, been shown to be highly improbable by in his treatise on sugar. The cane of the saccharum officinarum, as this plant is
China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . asbeen rendered sweet cane,^ has a distinct reference to this is certainly clear that the «w^eet cane or calamus was anarticle of merchandise in ancient times, and, as it is spoken ofas coming from a far distant land, it is equally clear that it wasnot the production of Palestine, or of any contiguous conjecture, however, that it is the sugar-cane of commerce,has, in my opinion, been shown to be highly improbable by in his treatise on sugar. The cane of the saccharum officinarum, as this plant is termedby botanists, is -very lik€ the common reed, and its stem,which is very knotty, not unfrequently exceeds twenty feet inheight. From each of its knots or joints, which number fromthirty to forty in each stem, grow long, narrow leaves. Theland set apart for its cultivation is well manured in the first The passages of Scripture which contain a reference to the .sweet cane areE.\. XXX. 23; Song of Sol. iv. M ; Is, xliii. 21 ; Jcr. vi. 20 ; Ezck. xxvii. I
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