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grow from eight to twelve feet high. Some 

 fampane cargoes of canes are brought toge- 

 ther to a convenient place on the river fide ; 

 there they build a hut of bamboo and mats, at 

 one end of which they make a furnace with 

 two great iron-boilers; and at the other an 

 even floor of a confiderable fize laid with 

 planks, over which two oxen draw an angu- 

 lated roller of hard wood. The canes, which are 

 difpofed in layers under the roller, are crufhed ; 

 and the juice, which by means of a canal is 

 conduced to the end of the floor, is there col- 

 lected in a great veiTel. The remaining juice 

 in the canes is entirely boiled out in one of the 

 boilers, is mixed with the expreffed juice, both 

 are {trained through a cloth, and boiled into 

 a brown fugar in the other boiler : the leaves 

 and {talks ferve as fewel. When no canes re- 

 main in the place where they are, they remove 

 the houfe again, and proceed further with all 

 their implements. Thefe fugar-bakers travel* 

 led about in the country, and boiled the fugar 

 out of the country people's canes, leaving it to 

 be refined by other fugar-bakers, and made 

 intp fine and coarfe powder-fugar. 



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