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Either the expenses or the profits of this manufacture, therefore, CHAPTER 
are immense. The fine white soft sugar is made up into a kind of 
paste, which is put into moulds of a variety of forms, and thus Ju h l6 * 
hardens into solid masses, that are presented to guests at marriages, 
or on other great occasions ; which seems to be the reason of the 
enormous price of this manufacture. The art of making this paste 
is also a secret. 
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Having taken some of the cultivators to the cane-fields 3 they 
showed me a plot which they said would produce a hundred 
Maunds of Jagary ; and they observed, that every hole, in which 
two cuttings are planted, should produce from 6 to 10 ripe canes. 
By measuring this field, and allowing for the distance occupied by 
each hole, I found that it would plant 8000 double cuttings ; but, 
as s6me holes fail entirely, I shall only take the average number of 
canes from each hole at between six and seven; and then the pro- 
duce of the field will agree perfectly with the two Maunds of Ja~ 
gory, stated by the sugar boilers to be what could be obtained from 
1000 canes. I look upon this, therefore, as good data for a calculation ; 
and, extending the measurement, I find that the acre should produce 
about 140 Maunds of Jagory , or 30 hundred-weight of this rude 
material; which is capable of being made into 15 hundred-weight 
of raw sugar, worth 22/. 15 a. Of this, however, one third must 
be deducted for the expense of manufacture, leaving 15/. 3s. 4 d. 
an acre to be divided between the government and cultivator. 
Of this the government nominally gets one half; but the deduc- 
tions made on a division are very great. Some sugar-land here is 
watered by the machine called Yatam , an expense which it can well 
bear. In this case, the farmer, for his additional trouble, gets one 
quarter of the government’s share. 
The sugar mills which the people here, as well as every where in Sugar-mill, 
the Sira Subadary , use, are two cylinders wrought by a perpetual 
'Screw, and two bullocks (Figure 34); but seven times in the 24. 
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