35^ TRAVELS tHROucH 



the canes are made up into bundles, and brought 

 to the mill, where they are cruihed between two 

 wooden cylinders, covered with fteel. A negro 

 puts the canes between the cylinders, which 

 prefs all the juice out, which is received in a 

 great hollow, from whence it goes through a 

 leaden pipe into a refervoir, which leads it into 

 the place where the ovens ar^, which are defti- 

 nedtoboilif ^n great boilers. When the juice 

 is refined, it . is poured into another boiler ; it 

 mufl be continually ftirred, and boiled till it has 

 a proper confiftency -, and when the fugar is got 

 to the firft ftate of perfedion, it is put into 

 forms of earthen ware, in order to be refined ; 

 it acquires the fecond degree of perfedion by the 

 opening being covered with clay to prevent the 

 air from acting upon the fugar, and that it may 

 not harden too much before it is refined by the 

 ieparation of fyrups and melafics. 



It is with the fcum of fugar that they make 

 taffia or kill-devil. This liquor is prepared as 

 brandy is in France ; and goes through the ftill. 

 The Europeans in America prefer it to brandy for 

 curing of wounds. They likewife make rum 

 with it. 



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