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fugar eftates. The Melaffesis fent for fale to Batavia 
where one diftillery may purchafe the produce of an hun- 
dred eftates. Here is a vaft faving and reduGiion of the 
price of {pirits; not as in the Weft-Indies, a diftillery, for 
each eftate; many center in one; and arrack is fold at Ba~ 
tavia from 21 to 25 Rix dollars per Leaguer of 160 gal- 
lons; fay 8d per gallon. 
‘The improvement in making the cane into fugar at 
Batavia keeps pace with that in its culture. Evaporation 
being in proportion to the furface, their boilers are fet 
with as much of it as poffible; the cane juice with temper 
fufficient to throw up its impurities is boiled down to the 
confiftence of a fyrup; it is then thrown up into vats cal- 
culated to hold one boiling, then f{prinkled with two buck- 
ets of water to fubfide its foul parts; after flanding fix 
hours, it is-let off by three pegs of different heights into 
a fingle copper with one fire. It is there tempered again 
boiled up and reduced to fugar, by a gentle fire. It yra- 
nulates, and the fugar boiler dipping a wand into the 
copper ftrikes it on the fide, then drops the fugar remains 
ing on it into acup of water, fcrapes it up with his thumb 
nail, and is by this means able to judve to the utmoft ne= 
ceffity of the fugar having its proper degree of boiling : 
the vats or receivers I mentioned are placed at the left hand 
of a fet of coppers; after running off for boiling all that 
is clear, the remainder is paffed through a ftrainer, on the 
outlide of the boiling houfe; what is fine is put into the 
copper for fugar ; the lees are referved for diftilling.” 
VOL. II, Ls No. X. 
