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and out-houses; twenty-four negro houses, with veran- 
dahs in front, each cabin is forty feet square, and con- 
tains four rooms, and has a garden and fowl house 
attached; a hospital sixty-four feet square, containing 
seven rooms, and an immense verandah; a nursery fifty 
feet square, store-houses, overseer’s or manager’s house, 
stables containing one hundred stalls, two wood houses, 
each four hundred feet long by one hundred wide; one 
sugar house five hundred and seventy feet long, by 
seventy-five feet wide, thirty-four feet high between the 
floor and ceiling; and a ‘double saw mill.’ 
“The machinery consists of steam saw mills and 
pumping engine at the river for supplying the sugar 
house with water, steam engine of eighty horse power, 
and sugar mill for grinding cane; engines, vacuum pans, 
and a complete apparatus for making and refining 
twenty-five thousand pounds of sugar every twenty-four 
hours direct from the cane juice, and doing this entirely 
by steam. 
“The stock upon the plantation consists of sixty-four 
mules, twelve horses, sixteen oxen, one hundred and 
forty-five sheep, eighty head of cows and ‘beeves,’ two 
hundred and fifteen slaves—among which are one hun- 
dred and seven field hands, two coopers, one blacksmith, 
two engineers, four carpenters, twenty house servants, 
four nurses, eleven old men and women that attend to 
the stables, and sixty-four children under five years of age. 
“The cash expenses of this estate are twenty thousand 
dollars annually, paid to managers, sugar-makers, en- 
gineers, and for food and clothing for the negroes, and 
repairs of machinery and buildings. The weekly rations 
