Excerpt from The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 11: Comprehending the Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce
This cflay might appear very defective iti pafi'ed over in filenee the op inion of Sanmaite refpeéti11g the fugar of the antients, which has been adopted by many learned men. This author endea1 ours to prove, by a variety of arguments, that the antient face}: drum 11 as the an1e as the modern fact ebar mambu of the Indians, and the laéaair of the Pertians and the Arabs. I {hall 11ot,howc1cr, adduce all the proofs which he employs, and which ha1c been frequently quoted by others, but confine my felf to a few obfer1ations. As I never had an opportunity of feeing, as far as I remember, the fugar'called mam'm, as none of it has been imported into europe ln mv time, we mutt confider It to be that men tioned by thofe who have been in India, and who have often feen tafiaxir.
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