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 made ugar of; which the rattoons produce in like manner, but generally not in an equal quantity with the other. Of thee, the lands of the old ilands will bear but one crop, in Dominica they will rattoon four or five years running, and the lat year's yielding of ugar will be as great as the firt.

The ugar etates in the old ilands have generally a number of barren pots in them, called "Yellow pots;" the terility of which no art can overcome o as to make them bear canes to any perfection; for though they will pring up, yet they oon change from a green to a yellow colour, and rot in the ground. And, moreover, the old ilands are frequently ubject to long and evere droughts, which never happen in Dominica; and there is every reaon to uppoe they never will, from the great number and heighth of its mountains, together with the vat quantity of woods, which it will be next to impoible ever