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riod. Ifa sufficient quantity of cane-trash has been properly 
dried and laid up for supplying the boiling-house and kitchens, 
no addition has to be made for fuel; but if fuel has to be pur- 
chased, an addition of 25 or 30 dollars a-day must be made to 
the expenses of the establishment. 
The canes are ground by a water-mill; but when water 
fails, or any accident happens to the machinery, the mule-mill 
is put in operation ; thirty-six mules are set apart for this 
work: six are yoked to it at once, and work it for two hours 
in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, during each 
twenty-four hours. This brings an additional charge of 36 
duros per day. 
Each form or cooler in which the sugar crystallizes regu- 
larly affords from 47 to 50 lb. of sugar, and 60 or 65 Ib. of 
molasses daily. 
The establishment contains the two mills, stables for 80 
mules, extensive rooms for depositing the canes till ground, 
two boiling-houses, and crystallizing and curing rooms. 
The erection of these works, purchasing a spare mill, and 
a dozen of additional copper boilers, have caused a heavy out- 
lay. But besides the sum required in these erections, the pro- 
prietors have expended in the purchase of 800 fanegadas of 
land, planting 120 of them, in stocking the farm with horned 
cattle, sheep, and mules, and in building stores and granaries, 
80,000 duros. 
Yet the returns of this double establishment have been, 
even in bad years, at least seven per cent., in middling seasons 
eleven per cent., and in favourable seasons from sixteen to 
twenty per cent., clear of all charges, on the capital embarked 
in the undertaking. 
These remarks will shew that the cultivation of the sugar- 
cane might still become an important branch of Spanish in- 
dustry, notwithstanding the competition of foreign sugar; and 
that little is wanting but a firm and equitable government, to 
afford from this source a very profitable investment of capital, 
if managed with the judgment and skill displayed in the estab- 
lishment at Marbella. 
VOL. XXXII, NO, LXIV.—-APRIL 1842, T 
