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Show 18 SANTA CRUZ· S,.\NTA CRUZ. l!J India Islands. N aturc h as done wonders for th.e.m . much more so than that produced by moister and 0 f . 1 D Stedman who has been practiSing more luxuriant soils. Every part of this valuable nr rtenc r. . ' ., h sician, sent us a 1 · 1· d t 'fl I c I for fifty years on the 1siand as " p Y . . f pant JS app Jc o some usc. 1c eaves wrm exce _ present of the bread fruit. It is round, o_f tdhc ds.tz-~ 0d lent fodd er for pigs and cattle; the refuse cane, after a cocoa-nut, and covered with a green rm 'd'tvt ed the juice has been pressed out, receives the name of into hexagons It. ke the b oneyco mb · We w. ere dt reI·c teI trash, and is carefully stacked under cover, for the to keep it for a day or two, tlJ Cn to bake tt, an .tst Y purpo sc of fuel . to cut it in slices to I1 c toas t e d c''o r breakfast. We It t·s a ct· rcurns ta, nee rnuc I1 t o b e I arnente d , t 1J at t 11 e found it a sweet, agreeable, farinaceous food, proba- distillery is an almost unvarying appendage to the bly the best substitute for bread that has yet been boiling-house, and every two hogsheads of sugar are discovered. . I f accompanied by at least one puncheon of rum. The The sugar crop was now commencmg on sever~ 0 new rum of the West Indies is a tempting, but most the estates and we vt· s·t te d t h c pro pcrty of our fnend un be aIt I1 y 1t' quor, anc I h as, d ou b t1 e ss causec1 an un- A dam Ste~enson of North End, to witness the pro- numbered multitude of untimely deaths. Our friend cess of suo-ar-rnaking. When there is wind enough Stevenson drinks only water, and with an honest conto turn t~e mill, the canes (already conveyed to 11 sistency manufactures no rum. The "scnmmings" on asses or mules) are forced between two almost ofthe sugar liquor, fi·01n which (with a mixture of contiguous iron cylinders, kept in constant rotatory 1 molasses) the rum is usually distilled, are, on his esrnotion. The liquor thus pressed out, is conv~~ed tate, pumped back into the clarifier, and converted by a long wooden pipe, down the hill to the bmhng into sugar as excellent as any that he makes. He is house. It is there received by a large vessel called confident that this change of system is economical the clarifier, and thence it passes through a succes- and profitable; and greatly is it to be desired that sion of boilers, subjected to different degrees of ~eat. his example may be followed throughout the West First it is converted into syrup ; next into the thtcker Indies. fluid called sling. The sling is conveyed by troughs The exports of sugar fi·01n Santa Cruz in 1839, into the gram. m. g pans, w h ere 1' t granulates and 19 42 ' were , 8 hogsheads, of l,800lbs. each. In some assumes the form of sugar mixed with molass_es. former years, the produce has been upwards of :30,000. It is then transferred to the hogsheads, from whtcb While on the one hand, this island derives vast ad- ~he molasses gradually drain into receivers vantage from the watchful skill and care of a respect-below; and finally, the sngar is left dry and body of resident proprietors, there can be no ready for exportation. The sugar of Santa that the dead weight if the slaves is severely is generally of a fine grain, and light, delicate co at many of the estates have passed from the C2 |