150 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



to the relief of the flaves, depends principall^r 

 oa the produce of the milK The fpeedier 

 the juke is extracted > the fooner veill they 

 be freed from night labour^ fo prejudicial to 

 their health* Nothing, therefore, fliould 

 be negleded that can give fugar- mills every 

 polTiblc degree of power and aQ;ivity j and 

 it is, certainly, neither by mules nor weak 

 falls of water that fo falutary an end can be 

 attained, Viewa of intereft unite here with 

 the principles of humanity, to engage the 

 planters to introduce in their mills the ufe 

 of the fleam-engine. 



The woody part of the fugar-cane, known 

 tinder the name of trajhl^^ is more than fuf- 

 ficient for keeping up ebuiUtion in the boiler 

 of a fteam-engine, as well as in all the boii- 

 ers employed in making fugar. 



* The French call tlie woody part of the fugar-canc, 

 after the juice has been extra£ted, hagajft i but the 

 Englifli planters in the Weft Indies call It trap, T. 



That 



