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ments. The mansion is not the most showy, but is one 

 of the most commodious and excellent dwellings in the 

 state. The main building, 60 by 68 feet, is two stories, 

 the wings only one, and yet there are 600,000 bricks in 

 the walls. 



Next in importance to the dwelling, and upon nearly 

 all plantations, exceeding it, is the sugar house. Mr. 

 Pugh's is 40 by 340 feet, with an extensive cane shed at 

 one end, laid with iron rails, for cars to bring up the cane 

 from where the carts drop it, to the cane carrier, which 

 elevates it about fifteen feet to the mill, from which the 

 bagasse falls into carts, and the juice runs to the vats, 

 where it is cleansed by the "Spansenburg process," and 

 thence runs to the kettles ; thence to the coolers, and from 

 there the sugar is carried upon railroad cars along lines 

 of rails between the rows of hogsheads to the farther end 

 of the building. 



In a country where labor-saving machinery is so rarely 

 seen, the excellent arrangements here are more worthy 

 of attention. 



Then, again, at the stable, we find another railroad 

 labor-saving contrivance, that might well be copied by 

 nine hundred and ninety-nine other planters. The stable 

 is 40 by 230 feet, divided into 62 stalls, each seven feet 

 wide. The mules all stand with their heads to the centre 

 passage, seven feet wide, through which a railroad car 

 brings corn and fodder from the corn house annexed at 

 one end, and the animals are fed with a very small 

 amount of labor. Behind the mules, upon each side, there 

 is a good passage way, and each animal soon learns to 

 know his place, where he is fastened by a broad strap 

 around the neck, and a stout chain made fast to the stall 

 so that it is always there. All the feeding is done by 

 one careful hand, who is held responsible that everything 

 appertaining to the stable is as it should be. This is a 

 much better arrangement than trusting every Tom, Dick, 

 and Harry, to feed the animal he has been using; and 

 just a trifle superior to the very common practice of turn- 



