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to have, caufed the Sugars to be lean, and unfit to keep. Befides, 
they were grown greater proficients, both in boyling and curing them, 
and had learnt the knowledge of making them white , fuch as you 
call Lump Sugars here in England 5 but not fo excellent as thofe they 
make in afl nor is there any likelyhood they can ever make fuch: | 
the land there being better, and lying ina Continent, fiiuft needs have | 
'couttantér and fteadier weather , and the Aire much diier and purer, 
| than it can be in fo {mall an Nand, and that,of Barbadoess And now, 
feciiig this commodity, Sugar, hath gotten fo much the ftart of all the 
reft of thofe, that were held the {taple Commodities ofthe Iland, and 
fo much ovet-top't them, as they are forthe moft part flighted and 
neglected. And, for that few in Exgland know the trouble and care of 
malig it, [think it convenient, in the firlt place, toacquaint you, as 
far as my memory will fervé, with the whole procefs of the work of | 
Sugar-making , which is now grown thé foul of Trade‘in this Hand. 
And leaving to.trouble _you and my felf, with relating the errours our 
. Predeéééffors {6 long wandted-in; f- will in brief fer down the right 
and beft way they practifed, when I left the Ifland, which, I think, will 
admit of no‘gteater or farther improvement, FERS tee 
~ But, befote Iwill begin With that, I will let you fe, how much the 
landthere hath been advane’d in the profit, fince the’ Work of Sugar 
began, tothe time’ ofour landing there, Which was-not above five or 
fix ycars: For, before the work. his Plantation of Major Hillj: 
ar ':, of five htmdred actes} could have béén’ purchafed for four hun- 
dred pound {térliug 5. and-ttow the halfe ‘this Plantatiott,, with the 
hafte of the Stock upon it, Was fold for feven Hep poutid ftetling. 
And it is evident, ‘that all the daiid there, which has’ béen ittiployed to 
fiat Work Hath found the tike improvément. « And [ believe, when 
oh good Sugars for, the liquor wanting of the fweetnel it cup | 
the faiall Plahtastons im poor’ mens ‘haitds, often; twenty, or thirty 
| acres, which are too fmall t6 Tay to that wark, be bought up by great 
: fife, and put together, into Plantations offive, fix, or févén hundred 
acres, that two thitds of the Hand will be fit for Plantations of Sugar, | 
| which ‘will make it one of the. richeft: Spots of earth ‘under the 
OTIS Tol . seb {993190 DAR: SBE ETiChE HIT ena i 75 
“And now,fince f have pu tity {elf upon! this Dilcovery, 'T think it| 
aie you know ‘the nature of the Phung the right Mee Planting 
it, the manner of growth, the time of growing to ripenefs, the manner 
| of cutting, bringing homie, the place where'to lay them;beihg brought 
| hottie, the time'they may ly¢ thete, without {poyl, the tianner of 
prinding or fqueezing them, ‘the conveyance of the liqtior to’ the Cit 
| ens, how Jong 1t may ftay there without harme, the manner of boy 
» Tiny and 'skimmitig’ with the conveyance of the skimmings into the: 
erns, in the Still-houfe, ‘the mannef of diftilling it, which makes. 
hi 
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tongett Spirits that men can drink, with the temper to -be put ins 
What rhe tempers, the time of cooling the Stigar before it be putinto 
the Pots 5 tlie tinte it ftaics'it‘the Cureing houle, beforeitbe ¢ood 
Mufcavado Sugar. . And laft, ‘the making of it into Whites, which we 
; fit-a3 } LEER 2 6 Ley 
bapa yo ee | 
_, Pitt then, “itis fit to fet down, what ‘niamier of place is to be cho- 
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