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A True and ExaB Hijlory 



king good Sugar y for^ the liquor wanting of the fweetnefs it ought 

 to have, caufed the Sugars to be lean , and unfit to keep. Befides, 

 they were grown greater proficients, both in boyling and curing them, 

 and had learnt the knowledge of making them white, fuch as you 

 call Lump Sugars here in EngUnd , but not fb excellent as thofe they 

 make in Bm//, nor is there any likelyhood they can ever make foch: 

 ^ the land there being better, and lying in a Continent, muft needs have 



conftanter and fteadier weather, and the Aire much drier and purer, 

 than it can be in lb fmall an Hand, and that o£ Barbadoef. And now, 

 feeing this commodity, Sugar, iiath gotten fo much the ftart of all the 

 reft of thole, that were held the ftaple Commodities ofthe Hand , and 

 lb much over-top't them, as they arc for the moft part flighted and 



■ neglected. And, for that few in England know the trouble and care of 

 iila^king it, Ithinkit convenietit,in the firft place, to acquaint you, as 

 Cir ais my memory willierve, with the whole procels of the work of 



i ^ugar^making , which is now grown the foul of Trade in this Hand, 



i And leaving to trouble you and my felf, with relating the errours our 



j -PredeceUbrs fo Jong wandred in, I will in brief let. down the right 



I '^nd beft way they pradiled, when I left the Ifland, whichp J thinkpWill 



adiiiit tof no greater or farther improvement, i . 



; ' BiiJ^jibefore I'willbegin li^ith that,^ I will let you fee, how much the 



. Jatt^$ber^' hath ijeen advatK:'<liki the.pro£t, fince the work of Sugar 

 i i)egin,'!tptheii!me of our landing tha:e, which was not above five or 



\ (k^eaf^i Forji)ef0i?e the work began,this Plantation of Major Hi//i- 

 I ; <irrf'4 of five, hu^idred acrc^^ jcould have been purchafed for jfour hun- 



; ^if^d;^unid.ft!erliwg5 ,and now the halfe this Plantation ^ with the 

 i ' ,h^e saf the Stoxik upon it, wasibld for feven thoulatid po^qd fterling. 



i ^^^hiit^ evidenty !th4t all the Idijd there, which has beeh isiployed to 



I iihM jwork i,teh found the like improvexnent.. And Uaelieve, when 



) ' If he ifinaUPlantabiodS' in' poor ravens hands, !0.f ten, twenty, or thirty 



I ^a^rcjsl i 'ivhichire coo finall to lay to that work^be bought, up by great 



' xam'i and pubtdgcther, into Plantations of five, fix, or feven; hundred 



ae^^es,' that rtwxaithicdisof the.lland will be fitfor Plantations of Sugar, 

 I wKich * wiU iriakis it one iDf the richeft Spots of eaytk ftiider the 



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■ l.'j 5 =iVkd naw,fiht^iJ .have jaitniy ftlf upoti this Difcoverjr, I think it 

 ffit lolet youiknowthe nature of the Plant,^ the right way of Planting 

 it^th^ manner of growth, thietime of growing to ripenels, the manned 

 I tof cwfingi bringing' homfe^ tihie place where to lay them,being brought 



• ; ^^me, thc'tiniQithey njayJy]e..there, without (poyl, the manner of 



■ i f^ti^jffdingior fqueeziig them, ^he-coiiveyance of the liquor to the Ci- 

 I ! 'ftem$i hiaw long it may ftay there ; without teme, the manper of bpy- 



; littgaod; skimming si with jrhe cbaifeyanee^of t^ie skimmings into the 



1 Cifons,' iri'the .-StUi-houfe, jthe toannep "of Jiftilling it, which makes 



* : ; ctheftrbn^eftfSpirttiithat meH cdnidrjinikj Wi^h th« temper to be put inj 

 i 1 1 iwhdt the tern jfcp ii,ithe time iof igpolihg thfeS,ug^«" before it b.e put into 

 : 1 the Pots 5 the time* it .ftaies in the Curbing ' JboUfe, before it $e good 

 i ; iJV^ufcavado ^lagir. i ) And laftj thbmiaiking of ilt into Whites, which we 

 I j 4:^11 lUimp^^gar.: S^^ !r' y. r, 



; - ' ■Fivdc then it isfitito fet down, what mann,e!r of place is to be eho- 



i ' ' fen. 



