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are mud, and stand all the year; but a new roof of very slight ma- CHAPTER 
terials is put on annually, when the crop is ripe; at one end is a , m - 
square pit for holding the cuttings of the sugar-cane, (see Fig. 15 June 11 . 
and 16, a), and at the other is the boiler (b). The furnace (c) is partly 
raised, and partly sunk; it is in the form of a truncated cone, and 
the few el is supplied from without by an opening in the wall (cl). 
The small hole (e) for letting out the smoke is most injudiciously 
placed before the boiler, and has no chimney. The iron boiler 
(b b b) is flat, and completely shuts the mouth of the furnace. Be- 
fore. the boiler is a cavity (f) for containing the. large cooling 
jar. At one of its sides is a seat of mud (g) for the workman who 
superintends the boiling ; and at one end of this is kept a small ark, 
(h) dedicated to the gods. Here is daily put a proportion of Jci- 
gory, and a bit of money, which are given to any Brahman that may 
come to bless the operation by his presence ; but, if none come, the 
money is sent to the Brahmans of the town, and the workmen eat 
the Jagory, after having presented it to the gods, and uttered their 
names. 
Ihe sugar mill (see Fig. 17) consists of a mortar, beam, lever, Sugar mill, 
pestle, and regulator. 
Fne moi tai ^aa) is a tree, about ten feet in length, and fourteen 
inches in diameter. It is sunk perpendicularly into the earth, leav- 
ing one end two feet above the surface. Fhe hollow (b b) is conical, 
truncated downwards, and then becomes cylindrical (c), with a 
hemispnei ical Projection (d) in its bottom, in order to allow the 
i uice lun fieel y the small opening (e), that conveys it to a 
spout (f ), from which it falls into an earthen pot. Round the upper 
mouth of the cone is a circular cavity (g g), which collects any of 
the juice that may run over from the upper ends of the pieces of 
cane, and nom thence a canal (hh) conveys this juice down the 
outside of the mortar to the spout (f ). 
The beam (iii) is about sixteen feet in length, and six inches in 
thickness, and is cut out from a large tree that is divided by a fork 
