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either in white jackets and trousers, or with stripes 

 of red and sky-blue. One band of negroes are 

 carrying the ripe canes on their heads to the mill ; 

 another set are conveying away the trash, after the 

 juice has been extracted ; flocks of turkeys are shel- 

 tering from the heat under the trees ; the river is 

 filled with ducks and geese ; the coopers and car- 

 penters are employed about the puncheons ; carts 

 drawn some by six, others by eight, oxen, are bring- 

 ing loads of Indian corn from the fields ; the black 

 children are employed in gathering it into the 

 granary, and in quarrelling with pigs as black as 

 themselves, who are equally busy in stealing the 

 corn whenever the children are looking another 

 way : in short, a plantation possesses all the move- 

 ment and interest of a farm, without its dung, and 

 its stench, and its dirty accompaniments. 



January 11. 

 I saw the whole process of sugar-making this 

 morning. The ripe canes are brought in bundles 

 to the mill, where the cleanest of the women are 

 appointed, one to put them into the machine for 

 grinding them, and another to draw them out after 

 the juice has been extracted, when she throws them 

 into an opening in the floor close to her ; another 

 band of negroes collects them below, When, under 

 the name of trash, they are carried away to serve 

 for fuel. The juice, which is itself at first of a pale 

 ash-colour, gushes out in great streams, quite white 



