IV 
CONTENTS. 
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obtaining raw or muscovado sugar. — Melasses, and its disposal . 
Process of making clayed sugar.—'Of rum.—Stillhouses and stills. 
—Cisterns , and their ingredients.— Windward Island process.— 
Jamaica method of double distillation.—Due quantity of rum from 
a given quantity of sweets, ascertained and stated. . • • 35 
CHAP. III. 
Capital necessary in the settlement or purchase of a sugar plantation 
of a given extent.—The lands, buildings, and stock, separately 
considered.—Particulars and cost,—Gross returns from the proper¬ 
ty.—Annual Disbursements.—Net profits.—Various contingent 
charges not taken into the account.—Difference, not commonly at¬ 
tended to, in the mode of estimating the profits of an English 
estate, and one in the West Indies.—Insurance of West India 
estates in time of vsar, and other occasional deduCions.—The 
question, why the cultivation of the Sugar Islands has increased, 
under so many discouragements, considered and discussed. . . 63 
CHAP. IV. 
Of the minor Staple Commodities ; viz. Cotton, its growth and 
various species—Mode of cultivation, and risques attending it.— 
Import of this article into Great Britain, and profits accruing 
from the manufactures produced by it. Indigo, its cultivation 
and manufacture.—■Opulence oj the first Indigo planters in Ja¬ 
maica, and reflections concerning the decline of this branch of cul¬ 
tivation in that island. Coffee, whether that of the West In¬ 
dies equal to the Mocha ?— Situation and soil.—Exorbitant duty to 
which it was subject in Great Britain —approved method of 
cultivating the plant and curing the berry.—Estimate of the an¬ 
nual expenses and returns of a Coffee plantation. Cacao, Gin¬ 
ger, ArnottO; Aloes and Piemento; brief account of 
each . ... 85 
