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rally about three feet long, half a 
foot broad, and three inches deep, 
with a mat spread at the bottom, 
which is slightly strewed with quick 
lime. In a short time the liquor in- 
corporates into a thick solid mass ; 
these large cakes they wrap in dry 
leaves, and lay by for sale. 
Their jagary is of a darker co- 
lour than the sugar, and contains 
more impurities, owing to the care- 
less manner they prepare it, by al- 
lowing all the scum to incorporate 
with the liquor. 
The ha't vissum, or one acre of 
sugar cane, in a tolerable season, 
yields about ten candy of sugar, or 
rather more, if made into jagary : 
each candy weighs about five hun- 
dred pounds, and is worth, on the 
spot, from sixteen to twenty-four 
rupees. In the West Indies, so far 
as my information goes, the cane 
yields from fourteen to twenty hun- 
dred weight of their raw sugar, 
worth, on the island, about twenty 
pounds of their currency. Here 
e produce is more than double ; 
ut, on account of its inferior qua- 
, and the low price it bears on 
the spot, the produce does not yield 
great deal more money than in the 
Nest Indies. However, as the la- 
our is incomparably cheaper, the 
dian planter must make much 
rger profits. 
The situation of all the lands 
ereabouts is exactly alike, being in 
e middle of an extensive plain 
joining the river: the soil is also 
uch alike, so that the produce 
nearly equal in all, when no uns 
vourable circumstances happen.— 
e same result is farther establish- 
by the quantity of sugar a mea- 
ure of juice will yield. Here it is 
ost always, except in a very 
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rainy season, or in lodged or wormy 
canes, about one sixth_part; or six. 
pounds of juice yield one pound of 
sugar. In Jamaica, Mr, Beckford 
says, that, on an average, eighteen 
hundred gallons of juice may be 
reckoned to yield an hogshead of 
sugar, or sixteen hundred weight, 
that is, one of sugar to eight of 
juice. This proves our juice to be 
one fourth richer than theirs. 
From the above calculation, it is 
evident that all the lands in this 
neighbourhood are better adapted 
to this culture than the lands of Ja- 
maica ; for here they not only yield 
a larger crop of canes, but the juice 
is aJso richer ; and were our planters 
here to bring: the molasses into ac- 
count, employed i in the West Indies 
for the distillation of rum, their 
profits would be still greater. At 
present this refuse is given to cattle, 
or carried away by labourers, for 
whatever they think proper. It is 
thus produétive of more real benefit 
than if converted into ardent spi- 
rits. The natives, in other parts of 
India, are, however, well acquainted 
with the method of making both 
rum and arrack, nor have they 
learned this pernicious process from 
Europeans, as some have supposed. 
In this country, the canes, while 
growing, are subject to fewer acci- 
dents than in the West Indies. I 
will mention them briefly. 
1. A very hot season is the worst; 
it injures the canes greatly, render- 
ing them of g reddish colour, yield- 
ing a poor, unprofitable juice : here 
they reckon the small, heavy, pale 
yellow cane the best. 
2. Storms, unless they are very 
violent, do no great harm, because 
the canes are propped ; however, if 
they are once laid down, they be- 
come 
