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嘉慶二十四年（1819）《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門，緊接落花生一條之後嘅「蔗」條（人手核讀：條文喺掃描本第 71 頁上半塊右半最貼版心嘅幾欄，下半句跨過版心、喺同一塊左半續寫；版心逐字實測「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」，頁次「五」）。原文全條：「蔗有二種，曰白蔗，曰竹蔗，而邑中惟竹蔗長丈餘，頗似竹，有正本，有庶本，斜而種之，多庶出，庶出尤甘。冬時搾汁煮煉成糖。」一、縣志分「白蔗」「竹蔗」兩種，而全縣實際只種竹蔗——長丈餘、形「頗似竹」。二、種法分「正本」「庶本」兩種蔗種，都係「斜而種之」，所以「多庶出」（側芽多），而「庶出尤甘」——側芽出嘅蔗更甜；呢個「正／庶」對舉係中文慣用嘅「嫡／庶」比喻，用嚟分主莖同側芽，唔係刻工之誤，本條照原文寫「庶」，唔改作「蔗」。三、條末接「冬時搾汁煮煉成糖」，即冬日將蔗搾汁煮糖；跟住嗰三種糖色（黑片糖、黃片糖、白沙糖）已另條逐字轉錄，本條唔重複。呢條係由公共領域掃描本人手核讀出嚟嘅內容事實，同志錄並排對照：《香港志》志錄 1819 年只有一條（EV-18190000-24）總述呢部縣志喺「穀類、菜、茶、果、花、草、木、竹、藤」等門「記錄了多樣植物，並附有關於分佈、形態等層面的扼要介紹」，冇蔗種之分、冇「正本／庶本」斜種嘅種法、亦冇「庶出尤甘」嘅農事觀察，所以兩者唔可以互相當第二來源；本條冇用志錄補任何未核到嘅字。逐字核法：先以 1,400 px 四欄圖（Z1-71.png）睇通全條，再以 660 px／580 px 兩欄圖（Z3-71.png、Z4-71.png、Z2-71.png）釘實最易混嘅一字——同一張圖右欄「曰白蔗」「曰竹蔗」兩個「蔗」頂上都多一層「艹」，左欄該字頂上冇「艹」、只得一個屋簷形字頭（一點、一橫、一撇），故判定為「庶」；「多庶出」「庶出尤甘」同用「庶」，同前文「正／庶」對舉一致。如實列出未核部分：① 「頗似竹」嘅「頗」字只見於 1,400 px 全欄圖，未再做窄欄高倍；② 條文起首之前一欄（落花生條末嘅「邑中甚夥」）已喺另一條覆核，本條唔重複。
English
The sugar-cane entry that stands immediately after the peanut in juan 3 (“Radiations of the Earth”, part 2), section “Products”, of the Jiaqing 24 (1819) Xin’an County Gazetteer (read by hand: its columns fill the right half of the upper printed block of page 71 of the scan nearest the centre column, and its closing sentence runs across that centre column into the left half of the same block; the centre column reads “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folio five). The entry in full: “Sugar cane is of two kinds, called white cane and bamboo cane; in this county there is only the bamboo cane, which grows more than ten feet tall and is much like bamboo; it has a main stock and side stocks, and is planted slanting, so that many side shoots come up, and the side shoots are the sweeter. In winter the juice is pressed and boiled down into sugar.” One: the gazetteer distinguishes white cane from bamboo cane, but records that the county in fact grows only the bamboo cane, ten feet and more in height and “much like bamboo”. Two: the planting distinguishes a “main stock” from a “side stock”, and both are set in on the slant, hence “many side shoots come up”, and those side shoots “are the sweeter”; the 正 (principal) and 庶 (secondary) pair is the familiar Chinese metaphor of wife’s son and concubine’s son, used here for the main stem and its tillers, so it is no compositor’s slip — the entry keeps 庶, and is not emended to 蔗. Three: the entry closes with “in winter the juice is pressed and boiled down into sugar”, and the three grades of sugar that follow (black-slab, yellow-slab and white) are transcribed character for character in a separate entry, not repeated here. This is a content fact read by hand from a public-domain scan and set beside the archive: the 1819 entry of The Hong Kong Gazetteer (EV-18190000-24) says only that the gazetteer “records many plants in its sections on grains, vegetables, tea, fruit, flowers, grasses, trees, bamboo and vines, with brief notes on distribution and form”, and gives neither the two kinds of cane, nor the slanting of “main stock” and “side stock”, nor the observation that the side shoots are sweeter, so the two cannot serve as each other’s second source; no unread character was filled in from the archive. How the characters were settled: a 1,400 px four-column detail (Z1-71.png) first gave the whole entry, then 660 px and 580 px two-column details (Z3-71.png, Z4-71.png, Z2-71.png) settled the one genuinely ambiguous character — in the same image the two 蔗 of “white cane” and “bamboo cane” carry an extra 艹 over the roof-shaped top, while the character in the other column has no 艹 on top, only the plain roof-shaped head (a dot, a horizontal and a left-falling stroke), so it is 庶; “many side shoots” and “the side shoots are sweeter” use the same 庶, matching the 正/庶 pair above. Gaps stated as they stand: (1) the 頗 of “much like bamboo” has been seen only in the 1,400 px four-column detail and not yet re-checked in a narrow high-magnification crop; (2) the column before the entry (“very plentiful in the county”, closing the peanut entry) is checked in the other entry and is not repeated here.
出處：掃描本：《廣州大典》第三十五輯·史部方志類·第六十三冊，嘉慶《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門——緊接落花生一條之後嘅「蔗」條。位置：掃描本第 71 頁上半嘅一個印刷塊，條文喺該塊右半最左邊幾欄、貼住版心（版心逐字實測「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」，頁次「五」），下半句「冬時搾汁煮煉成糖」跨過版心，喺同一塊嘅左半續寫。Commons sha1 ad357f97…。掃描本冇可用文字層，內容一律人手核讀：先 1,400 px 四欄圖（/private/tmp/jq/Z1-71.png）定位同一口氣讀完條文，再用 660 px、580 px 兩欄圖（Z3-71.png、Z4-71.png、Z2-71.png）逐字對照關鍵字（「正本／庶本」嗰個字係全條最易混嘅「蔗／庶」，靠同圖「曰白蔗」「曰竹蔗」兩個「蔗」字直接比對字形定案）。見 scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift。Provenance: Scan: Guangzhou Dadian, series 35 (local gazetteers), volume 63 — the Jiaqing Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, “Radiations of the Earth” part 2, section “Products”: the sugar-cane entry that stands immediately after the peanut. It occupies the columns nearest the centre of the right half of the upper printed block of page 71 of the scan (running head read directly as “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folio five); the closing sentence, “in winter the juice is pressed and boiled down into sugar”, runs on across the centre column into the left half of the same block. Commons sha1 ad357f97…. The scan has no usable text layer, so the content is read by hand: a 1,400 px four-column detail (/private/tmp/jq/Z1-71.png) gives the whole passage in one view, and 660 px and 580 px two-column details (Z3-71.png, Z4-71.png, Z2-71.png) settle the one genuinely ambiguous character, the 庶 of “main stock and side stocks”, by setting it beside the two 蔗 of “white cane” and “bamboo cane” in the same image. See scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift.