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with foam, and passes through a wooden gutter 

 into the boiling-house, where it is received into the 

 siphon or " cock copper," where fire is applied to 

 it, and it is slaked with lime, in order to make it 

 granulate. The feculent parts of it rise to the top, 

 while the purer and more fluid flow through another 

 gutter into the second copper. When little but 

 the impure scum on the surface remains to be 

 drawn off, the first gutter communicating with the 

 copper is stopped, and the grosser parts are obliged 

 to find a new course through another gutter, which 

 conveys them to the distillery, where, being mixed 

 with the molasses, or treacle, they are manufactured 

 into rum. From the second copper they are trans- 

 mitted into the first, and thence into two others, 

 and in these four latter basins the scum is removed 

 with skimmers pierced with holes, till it becomes 

 sufficiently free from impurities to be slapped of£ 

 that is, to be again ladled out of the coppers and 

 spread into the coolers, where it is left to granulate. 

 The sugar is then formed, and is removed into the 

 curing -house, where it is put into hogsheads, and 

 left to settle for a certain time, during which those 

 parts which are too poor and too liquid to granu- 

 late, drip from, the casks into vessels placed be- 

 neath them: these drippings are the molasses, 

 which, being carried into the distillery, and mixed 

 with the coarser scum formerly mentioned, form 

 that mixture from which the spirituous liquor of 

 sugar is afterwards produced by fermentation : 



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