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Some account of Savu

for boiling this sugar but for dressing all their victuals beside all which are cookd by this contrivance  How many parts of England are there where this contrivance would be of material assistance to not only the poor but the better sort of people who daily complain of the dearness of fuel  a charge which this contrivance alone would doubtless diminish at least one third  but it is well known how averse the good people of England  especialy of those degrees that may be supposd to be not above want  are to adopt any new custom which savours of Parsimony  I have been told that this very method was proposd in the Gentlemans Magazine Vol.  p.  many years ago but have not the book on board. Frezier in his Voyage to the South Sea describes a contrivance of the Peruvian Indians upon much the same principles planch 31. p. 273.  but his drawing & plan are dificult to understand if not actualy very faulty & his description is nothing  the drawing may serve however to give an Idea to a man who has never seen a thing of the kind
[Margin notes] Syrup fat?  Men & Beast
The Syrup or Gula which they make in this manner is so nourishing that Mr Lange told us it alone fed & fatned their hogs dogs & fouls & that even the men themselves could & had
 

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