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being cut, were. placed ^ drain. The crude juice was carried into a 
boiling house close by, placed in a large cauldron, and boiled for several 
hours until e. was concentrated into a thick viscid mass. During the 
boiling process the juice is well stirred by a wooden paddle, and as it 
thickens it is e rly tested until it has attained the degree of con- 
sistency required. It is then n placed in gourds, and when hardened 
probably be given in a later number of the Kew Bulletin 
I returned to Bridgetown about 2 o'clock. I gave my promised 
lecture in the Council Chamber. The chair was taten ДЕ the Жш 
his Excellency Sir Walter Sendall, K.C.M.G. follow 
extract from an article in the Agricultural Gazette, ian official оо 
of the Barbados Agricultural Society :— 
“The community at large is vere much indebted to Mr. Morris for 
the very conclusive and effective lecture which he delivered on the 14th 
ult., at the Council Chamber, to a rep and а Suen na 
in no wise detract from the merit of Mr, ris’ utterances when w 
вау that he reiterated a thrice told ae His ex bas for years та 
the theme on which, in these pages, we have harped both in and out. 
season ; and not harped i in vai 
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* Mr. Morris’ visit was most timely ; ; he came amongst us to tell us of 
the ба of things just at the time when our reason, sharpened by 
experience, was ripe for receptivity ; and so we feel sure his worda fell 
on no barren soil. We have harped for many a year on the * Minor 
ERT ae Mr. Morris has now touched it with a hen hand, 
and it the true pitch and intensity of tone which it lacked, and 
which ‘will “was anh cause it to give forth no uncertain sound, but a 
clear, metallic ring, inviting the workers of our busy hive to spend their 
en ergy wherever honey may be gathered or stored. 
* We have no intention of dealing categorically with. Mr. Morris’ 
lectare ; its main lesson is too Чыр and too obvious, and we 
not like to utter a single word that might, perchance, deflect the mind 
of the producer r from the aahh of that lesson: and that lesson 
is this, * in these ды nothing is too small, nothing too insignificant, 
* that it can be despised.’ Bananas have made Jamaica prosperous, 
yielding an export to the value of over half-a-million sterling ; and from - 
this at one time small and apparently insignificant industry ut, now 
worth a half-million—as a natural consequence, roads and railways, 
shipping and telegraphic communication, have ЕЗДЕ into existence as 
it were by magic, culminating in a noble exhibition.” | 
This lecture at Barbados brought x. visit to the West Indies 
close. I embarked on board the “ Medwa in the «эя for 
nd reached 
Kew on the following day. My mission had in all occupied 106 days. 
The distance travelled during this period was a little over 12,000 miles. 
