of the Ifland of Barbadoes. 8% 
|fen , to fet this Sugar-work, or Ingetio, upon and it muft ‘be’ the’ | 
+952 
/mutt vent ic felf at the bottom, otherwife it cannot run all cuts and 
Fe, marae 20S ee, ; % promi- 
(ed, whichT (hall be'briefin. ~ tem romi- 
. When T firft arrived upon the Hand, it. was 
And'fo I have done vith the Ingenio, and. now.to the wor 
: . he Tan ages 0 oy putpate, t0 Ob) 
| ferve their feveral manners of planting and husbandry there; and be- 
caule this Pl int was of greatef{t value and efteem, T defired firt the 
knowledge ti I {aw by the growth, as well as by what. had been 
told, that 1¢ was {trong and Jufty Plant, and fo. He fot as‘ where it | 
grew, to forbid all Weeds to ‘grow vety ner it 5 fo thirltily it fuck’t 
| the earth for nourifhmient , to maintain its own health aud am 
Jantry. ° Sipps arte caeece eee” 4 = BFK neh 
ay But the Planters, though they know this te be true, yet, By, their 
mannet of Planting , did not rightly purfue theit own knowledge ; 
f 
for theif manuer was, to dig {mall holes, at thtce foot diftance, or there 
abont, and put in the Plants endwife, with a little ftooping, fo that 
each Plant brought not forth above three or four fprouts at the moft, 
and they being,all faltned to one root, when they grew large, tall,and 
heavy, and {tormies of wind andrain came, (ahd thofe raines there, 
fall with much violence and weight) the roots were loofened, and the 
| Canes lodged, and fo became rotten, ahd tinft. for fervice in making 
good Sugar. And belides, the roots being fat aftinder, weeds grew 
pup betvveen, and vvorfe then all weeds, Wi hs, vvhich are of a ftron- 
| ger grouth then the Canes, and do. much thifchiefe ‘vvhere they ares 
Be hey vvinde about them, and pull themn dovvnto the ground,as dit 
| daining to {cea prouder Plant than themilelves. But experience taught 
Jus, that this vvay of planting vyas molt pernicious; and therefore vvere 
| refolved to try another, vvhichis, vvithout queftion,the belts and that 
s “9 5 ln anions ae ~ eg ene naa iat 2 emma TA 
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pened 
