2416 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIAc = Saccharum, 
** powder and put round the root of the plants, in small quantitiesand 
- * afterwards covered over with earth. The canes are now left to the 
fertility of the soil till they arrive at maturity, except when it proves © 
* such a dry season, that watering becomes requisite, and are cut 
* down about the Istof November. The first sort planted in the | 
- * foregoing manner, generally yields three. crops, while the second 
* requires fresh planting. - Du 
** The sugar canes are now removed from the sraond to the mill 
ú for expression. The juice, being extracted, is carefully strained, 
* mixed with a small quantity of lime water, then poured into large. 
* warm iron pans, placed on a plat-form of brick work, with fire 
« places below; it is now boiled for a length of time, and being , 
* removed. from the fire, and allowed to cool, it is a second time 
* strained, -and being again returned to the pans, the boiling is Te 
« peatéd for once, or twice, till it acquires a saccharine consistence. 
“The sugar, still very moist, is now put into cylindrical j jars, , which 
“have a small hole in each of their bottoms, for the purpose of 
* draining; aüd their tops being covered over with from half an 
- inch to an inch of clayey moist earth, these are placed on stands, 
* and remain for three or four days ; when the old earthen covering 
‘is removed, and a fresh one puton. 'T hey continue in that situ- : 
* ation for three or four days more, the covering is- then. taken. of, 
“and the sugar being sufficiently clarified is removed from the jas 
“ and spread out on flat baskets, exposed to the sun till dry; when. 
“it is fit for use. T 
= The mill for expressing the j juice; of which I have sent a uvery 
` “ exact miniature model, appears so ) far as I recollect, preferable t to 
“those used in India. The machine is wrought by a. 
“yoked to the small end of the crooked beam, ^ while its. thick end is 
_ “ fastened to the long axle of one of the cylinders. The canes hav- - 
= Po: undergone one expression, and bemg consequently i ina splitstate X. 
‘are not thrust a second time through till ali the i irons are gFe2" 
“ The cylinders are not always of the same dimensions; those I ex 
“amined were two cubits high, and one and two-thirds in diamet 
