Though I have said as much as is fit, and no more than truth, of the beauty and taste of these formentioned Trees and Plants, beyond which, the Sun with his masculine force cannot beget, nor the teeming Earth bear; all which are proper and peculiar to the Iland; for they were planted there by the great Gardiner of the World. Yet, there is one brought thither as a stranger, from beyond the Line, which has a property beyond them all; and that is the Sugar-Cane, which though it has but one single taste, yet, that full sweetnesse has such a benign faculty, as to preserve all the rest from corruption, which, without it, would taint and become rotten; and not only the fruits of this Iland, but of the world, which is a speciall preheminence due to this Plant, above all others, that the earth or world can boast of. And that I may the more fully and amply set her off, I will give you all the observations I made, from my first arrivall on the Iland, when planting there, was but in its infancy, and but faintly understood, to the time I left the place, when it was grown to a high perfection. [Illustration: (decorative banner)] _An_ Index _to the Platforme or Superficies of an_ Ingenio, _that grinds or squeezes the Sugar_. [Sidenote: _A_] The ground-plat, upon which the Posts or Pillars stand, that bear up the house, or the Intercolumniation between those Pillars. [Sidenote: _B_] The Pillars or Ports themselves. [Sidenote: _C_] The wall between the Mill-house and Boyling-house. [Sidenote: _D_] The Circle or Circumference, where the Horses and Cattle go, which draw the Rollers about. [Sidenote: _E_] The Sweeps to which the Horses and Cattle are fastned, that draw about the Rollers. [Sidenote: _F_] The Frame of the _Ingenio_. [Sidenote: _G_] The Brackets or Butteresses, that support that Frame. [Sidenote: _H_] The Dore, that goes down stairs to the Boyling-house. [Sidenote: _I_] The Cistern, into which the Liquor runs from the Ingenio, immediately after it is ground, and is carried in a Pipe under ground to this Cistern, where it remaines not above a day at most. [Sidenote: _K_] The Cistern that holds the Temper, which is a Liquor made with ashes, steept in water, and is no other than the Lye we wash withall in _England_. This Temper, we straw in the three last Coppers, as the Sugar boyles, without which, it would never Corn, or be any thing but a Syrope; but the salt and tartarousnesse of this Temper, causes it to turn, as Milk does, when any soure or sharp liquor is put into it; and a very small quantity does the work. [Sidenote: _L_] The Boyling-house. The five black Rounds are the Coppers, in which the Sugar is boyled, of which, the largest is called the Clarifying Copper, and the least, the Tatch. [Sidenote: _M_]