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eight holes, in the lowest of which is placed a pin to prevent the CHAPTER 
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regulator from falling when the strain is removed. A pin in one of 
the upper holes of the regulator, and another in one of the holes in June 11. 
the thick end of the lever, serve to secure in their place the ropes 
that bind closely together these two parts of the machine. Accord- 
ing as these pins are placed higher or lower, the relative direction 
of all the moveable parts of the machine is altered, and the balance 
of the beam is so regulated, that it goes round without any friction, 
but yet with its fork closely applied to the mortar. The only fric- 
tions in this machine, it must be observed, are at the two extremities 
of the pestle; and that which is at the lower end is entirely em- 
ployed in bruising the cane, which is the object in view; still, 
however, it is a machine badly contrived for the purpose to which 
it is applied. 
When the works and machinery have been prepared for making Making Ja- 
Jagory , all the proprietors of sugar-cane in the village assemble, SOi 
and . work together a day at each man’s field, in rotation, until the 
whole is finished. A sufficient number of people bring the canes to 
a man, who cuts them into pieces about six inches long, and puts 
them in the square cavity (a) in the boiling-house. From thence 
one man supplies the basket of the person who feeds the mill, and 
who is the third man employed at the works. The fourth man 
drives the bullocks; a fifth carries the juice to the boiler; a sixth 
attends the fire ; and a seventh manages the boiler. The mill goes 
night and day, and gives 56 pots of juice, containing in all about 
218 ale gallons. The bullocks are changed, after having expressed 
three pots, and do no more work that day, having been obliged 
to go very fast. Two of them are in the yoke at a time. 
The cane raised on black mould gives about a fifth part more 
juice than that produced on sandy soil : but then nine pots of the 
latter give a hundred balls of Jagory, while it requires twelve, or 
even fourteen, pots of the former to produce the same quantity. 
The workmen always put into the boiler as much juice as will yield 
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