claying of Sugar. 5 ; 5 
here are Dye-woods, asFuffick, &c. with 
Woods for other ufes , as fpeckled Wood, 
Brazil, &c. They alfo carry home raw 
Hides, Tallow, Train-Oil of Whales, 
Here are alfo kept tame Monkeys, Parrots, 
Parakites, 6 ''c. which the Seamen carry 
home. / 
The Sugar of this Country is much bet- 
ter than that which we bring home from 
our Plantations : for all the Sugar that is 
made here is clay’d, which makes it whiter 
and finer than our Mufcovada , as we call 
our unrefin’d Sugar. Our Planters feldora 
refine any with Clay , unlefs fometimes a 
little to fend home as Prefents for their 
Friends in England. Their way of doing 
it is by taking fome of the whiteft Clay and 
mixing it with Water, ’till ’tis like Cream. 
With this they fill up the Pans of Sugar, 
that are funk 2 or ^ Inches below the Brim 
by the draining of the Molofles out of it : 
Firfi: fcraping off the thin hard Cruft of 
the Sugar that lies at the top , and would 
hinder the Water of the Clay from foak- 
ing through the Sugar of the Pan. The 
refining is made by this Percolation. For 
ip or 12 days time that the Clayifli Li- 
quor lies foaking down the Pan, the white 
Water wlfitens the Sugar as it pafles thro’ 
it ; and the grofs Body of the Clay it felf 
grows hard on the top, and may be taken 
off at pleafure ; when fcraping off with a 
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