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The Colleton eftate is one of the largeft 

 in the ifland. It is, at prefent, the property 

 of a Mrs. Colleton, who refides in London. 

 The diredion and fole management of it is left 

 to Mr, Hollingfworth ; and Mrs. Colleton is 

 fortunate in giving her confidence to a perfon 

 of high honor and integrity, who does every 

 juftice to the eftate, and the proprietor. At 

 the Colleton plantation we had an opportunity 

 of witneffing the mode of claying or (as they 

 commonly term it) improving fiigar. This is 

 a very firaple procefs by which the fugar is 

 much whitened, and increafed In value. Acoat- 

 ingof clay, foftened nearly to a liquid ftate with 

 water, is fpread over the furface of the fugar^ 

 as it ftands in the deep earthen pots into 

 which it is received from the boiler, and the 

 fluid parts gradually draining away, the clay 

 becomes hardened into a dry cake at the top ; 

 while the water paffes through the whole of 

 the fugar, and carries with it a confiderable 

 portion of the melafTes, through an opening 

 at the bottom of the pot, leaving the fugar 

 greatly whitened, and improved. The clay 

 having become dry and contraded into a hard 

 cake, is eafify removed from the furface. We 

 faw it lifted from feveral of the pots 5 and 



