EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 3U 



of four thoufand, nay fometimes feven or eight thou- CHAP, 



XIII. 



fand pounds. u >" ■ ^ 



A particular defcription of its conftru<5lion might be 

 tQO tedious. I fliall only obferve, that the large water- 

 wheel moves perpendicularly, and correfponds with an- 

 other large wheel placed in an horizontal diredlion, and 

 this again adts upon three cylinders or rollers of caft- 

 iron, fupported underneath by a ftrong beam, fo clofe 

 together that when the whole is in motion, they draw in 

 and fqueeze as thin as paper whatever comes between 

 them. In this manner the fugar-cane is bruifed, to fepa* 

 rate the juice or liquor from the trafli. 



Thofe mills that are wrought by cattle are conftruc^ed 

 upon the fame principles, only the horfes or mules an- 

 fwer the purpofe of the horizontal wheel, by dragging 

 round a large lever. If the water-mills work the fafteft, 

 and be the cheapeft, yet as they muft wait for the tides, 

 they can only work part of the day; whereas the cattle- 

 mills are always ready whenever the proprietor finds it 

 convenient to ufe them. Adjoining to the mill-houfe is 

 a large apartment, alfo built of brick, in which are fixed 

 the coppers or large cauldrons to boil the liquid fugar. 

 Thefe are ufually five in number; oppolite to thefe are 

 the coolers, which are large fquare flat-bottomed wooden 

 veffels, into which the fugar is put from the cauldrons 

 to cool before it is put into hogflieads, which are placed 

 near the coolers upon flrong channeled rafters, that re- 

 YoL. I. S f ceive. 



