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equal to the describing of it; though communicated 
some way or other to numberless votaries, they have 
all acquired it they know not how; of course they 
cannot, perhaps will not, give any information on the 
subject. This much is certain, no borrowed ferment 
is used, and the fining is variously conducted with 
white of egg, isinglass, ashes, sand, bullock’s blood, or 
red earth, according to the suggestions of the several 
genii who may be supposed to preside over this part 
of the business. v 
The dimensions of the buildings vary according to 
that of the plantations. The construction of the mill 
is this:—A heavy round and fiat stone, running round 
on its edge in a circular trench, sunk in several others 
closely joined together: the fruit is thrown into the 
trench, and ground by the weight of the circular stone 
rolling round, and drawn by a horse. The dimensions 
of the bed, or horizontal part of the mill, that in which 
the trench is made, in one of a middle size, is about ten 
feet diameter, and stands about twenty inches from thp 
ground. The depth of the trench, is from eight to 
twelve inches. On the inner side, it rises perpendi¬ 
cularly, the outer sloping so as to give about four inches 
greater breadth at top than at bottom ; by this means 
the fruit, when crushed from under the roller, rises 
chiefly on that side, and is more easity returned into 
the centre by the person who follows, generally a 
woman or child, who also attends to the horse. The 
returning of the fruit into the middle of the trench, is 
sometimes effected by fastening a piece of wood, used 
for the purpose, to the mill work. The size of the 
circular stone, or roller (that which runs in the 
trench) in a mill of these dimensions, is about four 
or five feet diameter, and about fourteen inches 
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