Part 10 (2/2)

Different rape The commonest kinds are dried in hot ovens, but the best way is that in which the grapes are cut when fully ripe, and dried by the heat of the sun, on a floor of hard earth or stone

_Lye_, a liquor ar works, &c

What are Figs?

A soft, luscious fruit, the produce of the fig-tree The best figs are brought from Turkey, but they are also imported from Italy, Spain, and the southern part of France The islands of the Archipelago yield an inferior sort in great abundance In this country they are so difficult to ripen, they do not arrive at perfection The figs sent from abroad are dried by the heat of the sun, or in furnaces for the purpose

_Luscious_, sweet to excess, cloying

What is Rice?

A useful and nutritious grain, cultivated in immense quantities in India, China, and most eastern countries; in the West Indies, Central America, and the United States; and in southern Europe It forms the principal food of the people of eastern and southern Asia, and is rain, not even excepting wheat

_Nutritious_, wholesoreat deal of moisture?

Yes, it is usually planted in round can be overflowed after it is come up The Chinese water their rice-fields by means of movable mills, placed as occasion requires, upon any part of the banks of a river; the water is raised in buckets to a proper height, and afterwards conveyed in channels to the destined places

What is Sugar?

A sweet, agreeable substance, ar Cane,[1] a native of the East and West Indies, South America and the South Sea Islands; it is much cultivated in all tropical countries

The earliest authentic accounts of sugar, are about the time of the Crusades,[2] when it appears to have been purchased from the Saracens, and iar in Europe is made froation]

_Authentic_, true, certain

_Crusades_, holy wars

_Saracens_, Turks or Arabs

How is it prepared?

The canes are crushed between large rollers in a e vessel placed to receive it; it is then boiled, and placed in pans to cool, when it becomes imperfectly crystallized, in which state we use it This is called raw or soft sugar: loaf sugar, or the hard white sugar, is the ran sugar, prepared by refining it till all foreign etable that produces Sugar?