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finer sugar both in grain and colour than was ever pro- 
duced on this estate before. Had the hurricane then 
improved the quality of these latter canes, you will ask ? 
No, but the improvement is owing, first, to these canes 
having been better attended to, than they had been for 
years, in weeding hoeing and manuring, and, secondly, 
and in my opinion mainly attributable to the very im- 
proved method of potting the sugar, which 1 adopted at 
the suggestion of a very intelligent gentleman, Mr. 
Massiah of Barbados. 
The Sunday after the boiling house was re-opened 
I had it fitted up at one o'clock with benches, and recom- 
menced Divine service for the negroes. The morning 
service I have performed in my own house for the family 
and such as chose to attend. These desirable objects 
attained and our main buildings erected, we proceeded 
to re-build our megass houses (where the cane stalks 
when the juice is expressed are dried for fuel) our 
coopers' and carpenters' shop, our boat house at the 
Tunnel and the home cattle pens. Our attention would 
have next been turned to the ereftion of our hospital, 
nursery, overseers' houses, and my own mansion, but as 
American lumber, deal planks and scantling, is at present 
very high, we must wait a favourable opportunity when 
the price is low, and in the meantime our carpenters, to 
save expense in every way, are engaged back in the 
woods in cutting down large trees, which they split up 
into headings for the sugar hogsheads. 
