80 AN ACCOUNT or tue 
more acres) re-lets it to freemen in parcels of 50 or 60 on 
thefe conditions. 
That they fhall plant it in canes, and receive fo mucls 
per pecul of 133!lbs. for every pecul of fugar that the 
canes fhall produce. 
When crop time comes on, the fuperindant collects a 
fufficient number of perfons from the adjacent towns or 
villages, and takes off his crop as follows. 
Yo any fet of tradefmen who bring their carts and buf- 
faloes he agrees to give fuch a price per pecul to cut all 
his crop of canes, carry them to the mill and grind them. 
A fecond to boil them per pecul. 
A third to clay them and bafket them for market per 
ecul. 
- So that by this method of conducting a fugar eftate the 
renter knows to a certainty what the produce of it will coft 
him per pecul. He has not any permanent or unnecefla- 
ry expence; for when the crop is taken off, the tafkmen 
return to their feveral purfuits in the towns and villages 
they came from; and there only remains thecane planters 
who are preparing the next year’s crop. ‘This like all o- 
ther complex arts by being divided into feveral branches, 
renders the labour cheaper and the work more perfe@ly 
done. Only clayed fugars are made at Batavia: thefe are in 
quality equal to the beft fort from the Weft-Indies, and are 
fold fo low from the fugar eftates as eighteen fhillings fterling 
per pecul of 133i1bs. Thisis not the felling price tothe trader 
at Batavia, as the "government there is arbitrary, and 
fugar fubje&t to duties impofed at will. The Shabander 
exacts a dollar per pecul on all fugar exported. The price 
of common labor is from gd to 10 pence per day. By 
the method of carrying on the fugar eftates, the tafkmen 
gain confiderably more than this not only from working 
extraordinary hours, but from being confidered artifts in 
their feveral branches. They do not make fpirits on the 
fugar 
