CHAP. III.] 
WEST INDIES. 
69 
BUILDINGS. 
The buildings which will be found necessary on 
a plantation of the magnitude described are, 
1st. A water-mill, (if water can can be ob- J ama,ca 
tamed), the cost or which, consi- 
dering that a great extent of stone 
guttering is commonly requisite, 
may be stated, on a very low esti¬ 
mate, at ^C.IOOO sterling. Incase 
no water-mill can be erected, I do 
not conceive that a single mill, 
whether worked by cattle, mules, 
or wind, is sufficient to take off 
the crop in due time, a most im¬ 
portant object, on which the fu¬ 
ture success of the plantation de¬ 
pends. I allow, therefore, for a 
wind-mill and one cattle-mill, or 
for two cattle-mills without a wind 
mill, a sum equal to the cost of a 
water-mill, or 1,400 
2 d. A boiling-house, 45 by 22 feet, to con¬ 
tain 3 copper clarifiers, of 350 gal¬ 
lons each, and four other pans or 
boilers, including the cost of the 
same, and other utensils. - 1,000 
