of the Inland of Barbadoes. 



fen , tp fet this Sugar-vvoi'k, or Ingenio, upon 5 and it muft be the^ 

 brow of a fmall hill, that hath within the conipafs of eighty foot J 

 twelve foot defcent^wz.. from the grinding place^which is the higheftl 

 ground, and (lands upon aflat , to the Still-houfe, and that by thefe 

 defcents: From the grinding phce to the boy ling houfe, four foot and 

 a half, from thence to the fire-room, feven foot and a half^ and fome 

 little defcent to the Still-houfe. And the reafon of thefe defcents are 

 thefe^ the top of the Giftern, into which the firit liquor runs, is, and 

 murt be fornewhat lower than the Pipe that convaicsit, and that.is 

 a little under ground. Then the li Juor which runs from that Ciftern 

 murt vent it felf at the bottom, otherwife it cannot run all out^ and 

 tliat Cirtern is two foot and a half deep : andfo, running upon a little 

 defcent, to the clarifying Copper, which is a foot and a half above 

 theflowre ofthe Boyling houfe, fand fo is the whole.Frame*where all 

 the Coppers ftand)5 it muft of neceflity fall out, that the flowre ofthe 

 Boyling-houfe muft be below the flowre. of the MilLhoule, four foot 

 and a half. Then admit the largeft Copper be a foot and a half 

 deep, the bottom of the Copper will be lower then the flowre of the 

 Boyling-houfe, by a footj the bottonpf the Furnaces muft be three 

 foot below the Coppers^ and the holes under the Furnaces,into which 

 the allies faU,is three foot below the bottom of the Furnace^ : A little 

 more fall is required to the Still-houfe, and fo the account is macie 

 up. Upon what place the Sugar-work is to be .fet, I have drawn two 

 Plots, that exptefi more thaji language can do J to< which I refer you. 

 And fo I have done with thelngenio, arid now to the work I promi- 

 fed, which I fliall be brief in. ; 



When I firft arrived upon the Jland, it was in myfpurpofejto ob- 

 ferve their feveral manners of planting and husbandry there 5 and be- 

 caufe this PJant was ofigreateA value andefteem, I defired firft the 

 knowledge ofit.. I faw by the .growth, as well as by what I had been 

 told, thatit wasa ftrongand lufty Plant^ and fo vigorous, as where it 

 grew, to forbid all Weeds t6 grow very njeer it j io.thirftily it fuck't 

 the earth for BCjuriftiment .5 , to m^iftta^Q, its own 'health and gal- 

 lantry. ^ . i . ' ■ -.y,: ' ' - 



But the Planters, though ^hey know this to be true, yet, by their 

 manner of Pkinting , did not rightly purfue their own knowledge $ 

 for their manner was, to dig finall holes, at three foot diftance, or there 

 about I, and put in the Plants endwife, with a little ftooping, fothat 

 each Plant brought not forth above three or four (prouts at themoft^ 

 : and they bejng all faftned to one root, when they grew large, tall,and 

 heavy, and ftormcs of wind and rain carpe, (and thofe raines there, 

 fall withmudi violence and weight) the ^rppts were loofened, and the 

 ' Canes lodged* and lb became rotten, and unfit for fervice in making 

 good Sugar. And befidcs,^ the roots being fat alimder, weeds grew 

 upibetween, and vvorfc then all weeds, Withs,yvhich are of a ftron-» 

 j -ger grouth then the Canes, and do much mifchiefe where they are, 

 , for, they vvinde abotit thcm,and pull them down to the ground,as dif- 

 daining to fee a prouder Plant than themfelves. But experience taught 

 us, that this way of planting was moft pernicious, and therefore were 

 I refolved to try another, which isj without <5ueftion5thebeft3 and that 

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