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fes, where they do much mifchief. ae | 
The Canes with their tops or blades, do commonly grow te 
be eight foot high; the Canes themfelves are_ commonly five or fix 
foot, (I have feen fome double that length, but “tis but feldome) the) 
bodies of them, about an inch diametre, the knots above five or fix 
inches diftant one to another, many times three or four inches , 
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{toom; where one, or two,ormore, (who have other work todo inthe 
| Mill-houfe, ) when they fee the Mini 
{they go inimediatcly to the field, there to take in frefh loadingsfo that | 
|they may not unfitly be compar’d to Bees; the one fetching home 
| Hony, the other Sugar: being laid on the Barbyox,we work them out 
| clean, and leave none to grow ftale, for if they fhould be more then 
|two dayes old, the juyce will grow four, and then they will not be 
‘| fit to work, for their fournef&S will infect the reft; The longeft time 
‘| they flay, after they are cut; to the time of grinding, is from Saturday | 
nets Munday morning at oné or twoa clock; and the neceffity 
| of Sunday coming between, (upon which we donot work) caufes us 
grinding them, is this, the Horfes and Cattle being put to their tackle, 
in 
- |make their returnes without a guide 5, So underftanding this little 2 
they go about, and by their forceturne (by the {weeps) the middle} 
nado, they leave the field, and thelter themfelves in the dwelling hou-/ 
to fay fo Jong, which otherwife we would not do. The manner of | - 
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rollers which being Cog’d to the othertwo, at both ends, turne th 
abouts and they are three, tufning upon their Centres, which areo 
Bra@and Steel, going very eafily of themfclves, and fo Cafie as a mans 
ltaking hold of one of the fweeps with his hand will turne all the 
_ | Follers about with much eafe, But when the Canes are put in be-| 
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