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the juice has been extracted is used for fuel in making the sugar, 
and is fed to stock. Some lime is put into the juice when it is 
boiled. Six men were employed in the mill we visited, who 
worked from 5 o’clock in the morning until sundown. Each 
horse grinds twice a day, two hours at a time—making four 
hours per day foreach horse. The mill yields only one and a-half 
barrels of sugar per day. It wasmadein Cincinnati, Ohio. One 
of the other three mills on this island makes four barrels of sugar 
per day. It is only quite recently, we believe, that sugar has 
been made upon the island of New Providence. Commencing 
in December, sugar-making continues four months. The sugar 
seems of very fair quality. , 
A marine railway for the repair of vessels is maintained upon 
Hog Island, but we searched in vain for a single factory upon 
any of the Bahamas, bearing the faintest resemblance to the 
thousands that are found in every northern state. A very few 
little shops, like those often seen in small American villages, 
where some of the simplest of the mechanic arts are practiced, 
exist. But there is very little demand for skilled labor. We 
have a photograph of a Nassau joiner shop. It is very roomy, 
being located out-doors. It is well ventilated, having for its 
ceiling the blue vault of heaven. It is stable, being founded 
upon a rock. It is amply furnished and manned for the succes- 
ful prosecution of a limited business, as it has a single joiner’s 
bench and jack plane, which are in the sole possession and use 
of one of the Queen’s colored subjects. A negro, mounted upon ~ 
a rather unprepossessing looking mule, is the nearest approach 
which the Bahamas have yet made towards establishing either a 
steam or horse railroad. Telegraphs and telephones are of course 
unknown. Nassau has been described to be ‘‘a city without 
chimneys,” though a few have been built for culinary purposes. 
A lady of our party having broken either the main-spring or 
