EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



ings, frequently amounts to twenty or five-and-twenty 

 thoufand pounds fterling, exclufive of the value of the 

 ground. 



But to give the reader a clearer idea of the fugar-canej 

 which is fuppofed to be a native of Guiana, I refer him 

 to the annexed plate, where he may view it in the dif- 

 ferent ftages, though on a fmaller fcale than nature; A 

 being its firft appearance above the ground ; B the cane 

 Gome to half maturity ; C the fame with drooping leaves, 

 when fully ripe ; D a piece cut off at one end, and 

 broken off at the other. 



We fhall now examine its progrefs through the mill r 

 here k is bruifed between the three cylinders or rollers 

 through which it palTes twice, once it enters, and once 

 it returns, when it is changed to trafli, and its pithy 

 fubftance into liquid, which is condu6led as extracted, 

 through a grooved beam, from the mill to the boiling- 

 houfe, where it is received into a kind of wooden, 

 ciftern. 



So very dangerous is the work of thofe negroes who 

 attend the rollers, that lliould one of their fingers be 

 caught between them, which frequently happens through 

 inadvertency, the whole arm is inilantly iliattered to 

 pieces, if not part of the body. A hatchet is generally 

 kept ready to chop off the limb, before the working of 

 the mill can be flopped. Another danger is, that fliould 

 a poor flave dare to tafte that fugar which he produces 

 by the fweat of his brow, he runs tue rifk of receiving 



S f 2 fome. 



