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veyed into a vessel called the receiver. The 

 refuse, or macerated rind of the cane, which 

 is called cane-trash, serves for fuel to boil 

 the liquor. The juice as it flows from the 

 mill, taken at a medium, contains eight parts 

 of pure water, one part of sugar, and one part 

 consisting of coarse oil and mucilaginous gum, 

 with a portion of essential oil. 



As this juice has a strong disposition to 

 fermentation, it must be boiled as soon as 

 possible. There are some water-mills that 

 will grind, with great ease, canes sufficient for 

 thirty hogsheads of sugar in a week. It is 

 necessary to have boiling-vessels or clarifiers, 

 that will correspond in dimension to the 

 quantity of juice flowing from the receiver. 



These clarifiers are commonly three in 

 number, and are sometimes capable of con- 

 taining one thousand gallons each ; but it is 

 more usual to see them of three or four 

 hundred gallons each. Besides the clari- 

 fiers, which are used for the first boiling, 

 there are generally four coppers or boilers. 

 The clarifiers are placed in the middle, or at 

 one end, of the boiling-house. If at one end, 

 the boiler called the teache is placed at the 

 other, and several boilers (generally three) 

 are ranged between them. The teache is 



