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copper while in a vlfcid date 



with the fkumming or larger ladles 

 When the liquor has acquired a due confide 



ft be kept in condant, and ibmetimes violent ag 



beg 



put into broad {hallow v/ooden 



coolers j and after 



obtained a proper and dronger confidence th 



is 



rried 



tubs or other veflels and emptied into pots, barrels or hogfheads, according to th 



convemency 



fancy of the pi 



thefe 



are 



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convenient flanting platforms 



nd 



placed 



on 



ftanch 



underlaid 



items to receive 



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mobiles, which 



dribble through every hole and crevice for fome days, bu 



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taken to leave prope 



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for the difcharg 



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hich 



ay. 



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wife would fpoil the grain colour and confidence of the fug 



When they have cut as many 





d manufactured as much of this commo 



dity 



as 



their 



drength and feafons will permit, they begin to hole, plant and w 



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again; but where the foyl is rich and kind, this labour is much lefs, for the fuckers 



fhoot from the roots left in the ground the foregoing feafon, which are generally 

 d rattoons, grow often fo luxuriant and rich, as to contribute much towards the 



crop 



of the 



fuing 



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ear 



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ay, are ibmetimes found almod equal to the fird pi 



and in a very rich foyl frequently continue to anfwer for mfcny years : b 



grounds thofe of the fird year only are made into fugar, and the growth of the fecond 



poorer 



ferves for plants or is thrown up 



We fhall now give fome 

 commodity obtained from this valuable pi 



of the manufacture of rum, another principal 



In the manufacture of the former commodity, the courfe and order of the opera 



prevented my having mentioned the gradual addition of j 



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fupplied 



(iantly 



fucceflionfrom the fird clarefiers to the lad copper, which is hung 



immediately over the fire-hole, that it may be the more readily managed as occafion 



the other coppers, or raifing the rarefac 



requires, without retarding the procefs 



tion to too great a height j this fucceflion continues until all the liquor of the day is 

 boiled off, which holds often until late at night ; and then the coppers are charged 

 with water gradually, and the fires extinguifhed as the liquor is fhifted forwards :• 

 the coppers are well warned with this water early the enfuing morning (f) to make 

 them fit for the labours of the day ; and the wafhings difcharged into the common 



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ried to a proper receiver in the dill-houfe 



convey the fkimmings of the juice, by which they are car 



The ereneral method 



mixed and compounded, is, as foil 



and proportion in which the ingredients that yields this fp 



viz. 



Take one third {k 



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third water from the wafhings, and 



d clear lees to warm and ferment the whole, but though thi 



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third 



after 



addition of 



few gallons of molaffes, be the general proportion now in ufe, it may 



be varied with good effect by a judicious didiller: when thefe ingredients are put 

 gether pretty cool, and well mixed, the fermentation 



be b 



foo 



n, and wi 



rife 



in 



twenty four hours to a proper height for admitting the fird change of molafles 



which is about three gallons for every hundred 

 enriches the mixture, thickens the fermentatit 

 afterwards it is fit for the fecond and lad charg 



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of the wafh 



liquor 



this 



whicl 



with the fird : but 



d about four and twenty hours 



rly the fame quantity 



1 is 



mud be taken to give it this fupply before the fermentation 



abates, for otherwife the liquor will grow duggifh and never yield a due propo 



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the liq 



The fermentation falls gradually after the fourth or fifth day, and when 



rows fine, and 



throw up 



bubbles clear and flowly, it is 



fit for the dill, where the fpirit is drawn off by a condant equal fire, during which 



(f) This is the general mttho J in the Windward Iilands, but in Jamaica they rarely 

 ibove once a week. 





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