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to market, in all these various centres of sugar-produc¬ 
tion, in a much more elaborate way than would be in 
place to record in this book. 
At present the sugar-plantations of any importance 
are on the Pacific side of Guatemala, although some, as 
that of San Geronimo, near Salama, are in the high 
interior. The valley of the Michatoya is full of small 
A Primitive Sugar-mill. 
plantations, or ingenios. From the Pacific ports was 
exported in 1883, 44,927.27 cwt. of sugar, valued at 
$223,136.35; in 1884, about 7,000 cwt. less. The home 
consumption of sugar is very great, and most of that 
raised in the Department of Chiquimula is not exported. 
Much of the manufacture is by the rudest wooden mills, 
and the sugar resembles the poorest quality of maple- 
sugar; it is cooled in wooden blocks in hemispherical 
