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He now finds it more prudent to err on the safe 
side, and house his grain at every token that fore¬ 
bodes a shower. 
TIIE STOVE. 
The Stove is in use on only one Estate iii this Is¬ 
land ; nor has the Author ever heard of its services 
being resorted to in the process of drying Coffee in 
any other. It is found to answer the purpose per¬ 
fectly ; and may be used when the Sun withholds 
his beams. But, as the worthy and pleasant Gen¬ 
tleman who introduced it observed to the Writer of 
this Treatise :—“ he would not sullenly forego of 
his old friend Phoebus the friendly assistance 5 ’— 
nor would we by any means be supposed to re¬ 
commend our readers so to do. The Stove may be 
usefully brought in as a serviceable auxiliary.—The 
Stove, it may be therefore concluded, may be only 
advantageously used when the Sun withholds his 
beams. 
That which he 
G1 1 r i s t o ph e r 1 v o be rt, 
instances is on the Estate of 
Esq. and the construction of 
jt was taken 
from 
the kind of Stove used in England 
for drying malt. 
W e are somewhat surprized it is not more gene¬ 
rally adopted, and can only account for it on the 
principle of the repugnance which the long esta¬ 
blished Planters, who are the best able to try ex¬ 
periments, have to deviate in the least article from 
old established custom. Ln 
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