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Rh of vertical uns, are adequate to the fatigue of this laborious buines; The cane commonly hoots up to the height of five or ix feet, and is about half an inch in diameter: the tem or tock is divided by knots, above the pace of a foot from each other: at the top, it puts forth a number of green leaves, from which prings a white flower. The canes, when ripe, are found quite full of a pithy juice, (of which the ugar is made) and being then carried to the mill in bundles, are cut up into mall pieces, and thrown into a large'veel much in the form of a mortar, in which they are ground, by wooden rollers plated with teel, and turned either by the help of oxen, or manual labour; during this