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of vertical ſuns, are adequate to the fatigue of this laborious buſineſs; The cane commonly ſhoots up to the height of five or ſix feet, and is about half an inch in diameter: the ſtem or ſtock is divided by knots, above the ſpace of a foot from each other: at the top, it puts forth a number of green leaves, from which ſprings a white flower. The canes, when ripe, are found quite full of a pithy juice, (of which the ſugar is made) and being then carried to the mill in bundles, are cut up into ſmall pieces, and thrown into a large'veſſel much in the form of a mortar, in which they are ground, by wooden rollers plated with ſteel, and turned either by the help of oxen, or manual labour; during
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