made ſugar of; which the rattoons produce in like manner, but generally not in an equal quantity with the other. Of theſe, the lands of the old iſlands will bear but one crop, in Dominica they will rattoon four or five years running, and the laſt year's yielding of ſugar will be as great as the firſt.
The ſugar eſtates in the old iſlands have generally a number of barren ſpots in them, called "Yellow ſpots;" the ſterility of which no art can overcome ſo as to make them bear canes to any perfection; for though they will ſpring up, yet they ſoon change from a green to a yellow colour, and rot in the ground. And, moreover, the old iſlands are frequently ſubject to long and ſevere droughts, which never happen in Dominica; and there is every reaſon to ſuppoſe they never will, from the great number and heighth of its mountains, together with the vaſt quantity of woods, which it will be next to impoſſible
