55 8 ■ ) 
planting of them there unneceflary 
but 
Jamaica and Barbad 
are now 
were 
they 
they 
themfelves. 
yield their j 
Dr. Browne, 
{* n 
irit 
7 
ed; to the former of thefe Iflands y 
gradually propagated 
They require two or three years {landing before they 
brought from Bermuda, and 
m 
p erf eel; 
to procure which 
5 
The lab 
according 
to 
the field with tubs and 
d cut off the largeft and nioft fucculent leaves clofe to the ftalk 
thefe are immediately put into the 
b 
s, 
d difpofed one 
fide of 
dribble 
upright pofition, that all the loofe 
iqu 
out at the wound. When th 
is 
difcharged, 
the 1 
wholly 
through the hand 
adhere, 
low flat-bottomed vefiel 
eaves 
off 
are 
any 
tak 
thought 
to b 
out one by one 
5 
the 
may 

almoft 
paffed 
pa 
rt of the 
J 
that 
may 
yet 
flick in the lefs open 
d the liq 
P 
t 
in 
fhal 
d dried gradually in the fun, until it 
acquires a proper confifle 
generally called, fc 
•o 
What is obtained in this manner is 
and 
the cleareft 
d moil 
f 
\ 
well as the hieheft in efleem and 
parent, as 
of procuring the common al 
that mentioned by Mr. Hug 
a fumcient quantity of juice 
" i) 
Th 
method 
he flates to be nearly the fame with 
d lately by Mr. Milli 
d 
aft 
i 
is drained from the leaves, to make 
for 
bjeel: for the boiling houfe, the laft-mentioned gentleman 
4t 
th 
V- 
two 
fire, though fome have but 
The boilers are filled with j 
nfpiflated, by a conflant but reg 
boilers, either of iron or copper 
d the fmall pi 
placed 
and 
iy 
it ripens 
or becomes more 
fire, it is ladled forward from 
boiler to boiler, and frefh juice is added to th 
fartheft from th 
fire 
juice in that neareft to the fire (by much the fmallefl of 
the three, and commonly 
d by the name of tatch, as 
the 
manufactory of fugar) becomes of a proper confiftency to be fkipped 
ladled out into gourds, or other fmall veffels, ufed for 
final 
prion. The proper time 
fkip 
or 
ladl 
& 
it 
of the tatch, is 
when it is arrived at what is termed a refin height 
wh 
it cuts 
freely 
thin flakes from the edges of a fmall wooden fl 
th 
dipped from time to time into the tatch for that purpofe 
A 
b See Browne 9 s Jamaica y p. I 
d See London Med. Journal) V. 8# p. 422 
See his Hiftory of Barbadoe 
9 
lime-water 
