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CHAP. II.] 
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By means of the apparatus and process which I 
have thus described, the Jamaica distiller may fill 
weekly, working only by day-light, (a necessary 
precaution in this employment), and at a small ex¬ 
pense of labour and fuel, twelve puncheons of rum, 
containing each one hundred and ten gallons of the 
Jamaica standard. The proportion of the whole 
rum to the crop of sugar, is commonly estimated 
in Jamaica as three to four. Thus a plantation of 
the above description, is supposed to supply annu¬ 
ally, one hundred and fifty puncheons of rum of one 
hundred and ten gallons each; or eighty-two gal¬ 
lons of Jamaica proof to each hogshead of sugar; 
and this return, I do believe, is sometimes fairly 
made from canes planted in rich and moist lands; 
but on a general estimate I think it too great an al¬ 
lowance, and that two hundred gallons of rum to 
three hogsheads of sugar, which is in the propor¬ 
tion of about two thirds rum to the crop of sugar, 
is nearer the truth.* 
* This will be better understood by attending to the following 
particulars :—The general supply of scummings to the still-house 
is seven gallons out of every hundred gallons of cane-liquor. Sup¬ 
posing, therefore, that two thousand gallons of cane juice is required 
for each hogshead of sugar of sixteen hundred weight, the scum- 
mings, on a plantation making two hundred hogsheads per annum, 
will be twenty-eight thousand gallons, equal to 
Add the mellasses from the curing- 
house, which, if the sugar is of 
a good quality, will seldom ex. 
ceed sixty gallons per hogshead. 
Total of sweets .... 16,666 gallons, 
