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The Introdudtion. 
boilers when he begins a new piece of Ground, that they may be 
teady to remedy any inconvenience from the variety of Soils, 
One Acre of Canes yields fometimes four thouland of Sugar, 
commonly two thoufand. 
Sugar-Canes grow well within a Foot of water, and near the 
Sea they are large, though fometimes brackifh, 
Good Sugar is known by thofe ufed to making it, by its fmell 
before it is made. 
I have feen fome try to boil Cane-juice to Sugar in an ordina- 
rySkillet, with and without Temper, but both, efpecially the firft, 
was naught, being black and glewy, the reafon given me was 
the flownefs of the fire. The Sugar-boilers always obferving to 
make a very violent fire under their Coppers, 
Hogs Greafe, or any Oil is puta drop, or the bignefs of a Pea, 
into the Tach, fixch, or laft Copper, to lay the boiling over of 
it, and for no other end: ic is immediately quiet upon its being 
dropt in. 
ukeihe and Hill-Canes make bad Sugar, being black : they 
burn the Coppers, there not being moifture enough, therefore ’tis 
the beft way to mix Mountain and Valley Canes ; one bunch of 
the firft, to cwo of the laft, which makes good Sugar, or the Plan- 
ters mix water with the Cane-juice to hinder the Coppers from being 
burnt, or the Sugar made black. Likewife too much moifture 
makes ill Sugar, for “tis obferv’d thac after Rains the Sugar is 
brown , becaufe the water makes ic be the longer on the Fire 
before the fuperfluous moifture is boil’d off. 
Out of Sugars are made great quantities of cool Drinks by Fer- 
mentation, for I was informed that Rap, is what in Nieves they call 
cool Drink, viz, Moloflus and Water, and that Sugar Dvink is made 
with Sugar-Canes bruifed in a Mortar, or Hand-Mill, and then 
boil’d with water, and wrought ina Cask: it is clear like water. 
Locuft-Ale is Cane-Juice clarified, mix’d with Rum. Moloffus 
Drink is called Cawvaw. Upon drinking the Moloflus Drink of | 
Penils, or very bad Sugar, the Belly ach came to Barbados. Perino, 
before defcribed is the wholefomeft of all cool Drinks, 
Out of the French Sorrel, in this and other places, which came 
from Surinam, is made a fine cooling Conferve and Syrup. This 
Sorrel is defcribed hereafter. 
Formerly this place of the land was famous, in the time the 
Spaniards poflefled it, for Tobacco. They now Plant fome of it 
wich their Indico, but they think their beft Seed is loft or degenerated, 
being it is not fo good as formerly. Whar they Plane here is that _ 
fort with long Leaves, and is only cultivated for the ufe of the 
Ifland, and not for Exportation, They take off the tops and fide 
Buds 
