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imcit means, amounts to fourteen millions of piastres, ac 
actual price of those articles. 
Pnin f q^lities of sugar are distinguished in the island of 
Cuba, according to the degree of purity attained 'by refining 
(grades de purga). In every loaf or reversed cone, the 
upper part yields the white sugar; the middle part the 
yellow sugar, ovqnehrado; and the lower part, or point of 
of Cuba is conse- 
quently refined ; a very smaU quantity is introduced of 
Ihe forms being oi a diflerent size, the loaves (panes) differ 
generally weigh an arroba^ after refin- 
Zi 1 r ^?finer8 (maestros de azucar) endeavour to make 
yieW five-ninths of white, three-ninths 
I quebi ado, and one-ninth of cucurucko. The price of white 
sugar IS higher when sold alone, than in the sale called 
surtido, va. which three-fifths of white sugar and two-fifths of 
thA-ir combined in the same lot. In the latter case 
nlntai f ® fi>nr reals (reales de 
Plata) , in the former, it rises to six or seven reals. The 
tC Sinenta^“ S* ?°““g°^the prohibitions dictated by 
sumiS System of Kapoleon, the enormous con- 
sumption of sugar in England and the United States, the 
cultivation in Cuba, Brazil, Demerara, the 
Mauritius, and Java have occasioned great fluctuations of 
price. In an interval of twelve years, it was from three to 
oS to^ve^^^' fluctuations in the relation of 
During my stay in the plains of Guines, in 1804, I 
the to obtain some accurate information respecting 
the statistics of the making of cane-sugar. A great memo 
producing from 32,000 to 40,000 arrobas of sugarfis geLrally 
In fnir one-tenth of a square sea league) is aUotted 
to sugar-making properly so called (Canaveral^ and the other 
♦ The agrarian measnre, called cahalleria, is eighteen cordels teach 
1 ^q-re var,^ "onaeqtluy a" 1 
v”a, or no ll’fi ® Rodriguez, a oaballeria is 186,024 square 
acres.’ ** ‘’“''‘y-t'vo “'“i two-tenths English 
