A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes : illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making ... all cut in copper (1673)
Ligon, Richard · London : Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker ... and Thomas Guy ... · leaf 102
bour, and doit felfmuch right, ^Tis true, that it takes up double the time the Plantinedoes, in bringing forth the fruit^fbr tis a full year before it be ripe, butwhen it comes to be eaten, nothing of rare tafte can be thought onthat is not there, nor is it imaginable, that fb full a Harmony of… … of the IjlandofBarhadoes, 83 ledgmyfelfto be down-right lame, in the expreflion f yet ratherthen you Qiall lofe all, I will indeavour to rcprefent fome of her beau-ties, in inch faint expreffions as I have. A Slip taken from the body ofthis plant, and fet in the ground, will not prefently take…
Botany · Sugar
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