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Granada, and Murcia by the Moors. In the fifteenth century it was introduced into the Canary Islands by the Spaniards and to Madeira by the Portuguese, and thence to the West India Islands and to Braz...

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Granada, and Murcia by the Moors. In the fifteenth century it was

introduced into the Canary Islands by the Spaniards and to Madeira

by the Portuguese, and thence to the West India Islands and to

Brazil. The Dutch began to make sugar in the island of St. Thomas

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