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height. Round the top of the columns there runs a cornice or 

 entablature. Within the outer columns there are four other 

 columns, the same in design as the outer ones, which support 

 the pan or boiler. The boiler rises to a height of two and a 

 half feet above the entablature, making the whole structure 

 eighteen and a half feet in height. The boiler, with its cover, 

 makes the cupola-like top to the erection, preserving and com- 

 pleting the likeness to an eastern temple, which we have 

 already mentioned. The operator stands on a platform, which 

 is railed in round the top and between the outer columns, where 

 he has the entire machinery immediately under his eye. What 

 we have said will give some idea of the form of Mr. B canes' 

 invention. We will now, as briefly, attempt a description of 

 the mechanical uses of the various portions of the machine, but 

 which, from the want of diagrams, must necessarily be only 

 partially intelligible. And, first, we may mention that one 

 great drawback in Cuba, is the want of a sufficient supply of 

 water. Mr. Beanes turned his attention to provide against 

 this want, and the result is the machine in question. So scarce 

 is water throughout the island, that as Mr. Beanes informed 

 us, in some places, there is not as much as would suffice to 

 work a steam engine. This new apparatus, by its own action, 

 generates as much water as is necessary for the process of 

 sugar-making. A large portion of the erection is made avail- 

 able for the one grand purpose, namely, the condensation and 

 economy of the precious element. Suppose, then, that the cane 

 juice is put into the vacuum pan or boiler, the vapour which is 

 thrown off by evaporation is conducted by four copper tubes to 

 the entablature, which is tubular, and thence through an im- 

 mense series of tubes which are contained in the six outer 

 columns. It will at once be evident that the steam from the 

 vacuum pan is being thus reduced in temperature and con- 

 densed. The condensation is further aided by a supply of cold 

 air which is impelled by a steam engine, of peculiar construc- 

 tion, through various parts of the machine. The air is cooled 



