A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
History
A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
The Cooling Cistern, which the Sugar is put into, presently after
it is taken off the fire, and there kept till it be Milk-warm; and
then it is to be put into Pots made of boards, sixteen inches square
above, and so grow taper to a point downward; the Pot is commonly
about thirty inches long, and will hold thirty or thirty five pounds
of Sugar.
[Sidenote: _N_]
The Dore of the Filling-room.
[Sidenote: _O_]
The Room it selfe, into which the Pots are set, being fild, till the
Sugar grow cold and hard, which will be in two daies and two nights,
and then they are carried away to the Cureing-house.
[Sidenote: _P_]
The tops of the Pots, of sixteen inches square, and stand between two
stantions of timber, which are girded together in severall places,
with wood or iron, and are thirteen or fourteen inches assunder; so
that the tops of the Pots being sixteen inches, cannot slip between,
but are held up four foot from the ground.
[Sidenote: _Q_]
The Frame where the Coppers stand, which is raised above the flowre
or levell of the room, about a foot and a halfe, and is made of
Dutch Bricks, which they call Klinkers, and plaister of _Paris_.
And besides the Coppers, there are made small Gutters, which convey
the skimmings of the three lesser Coppers, down to the Still-house,
whereof the strong Spirit is made, which they call _kill-devill_, and
the skimmings of the two greater Coppers are conveyed another way, as
worthlesse and good for nothing.
[Sidenote: _R_]
The Dore that goes down the stairs to the fire-room, where the
Furnaces are, which cause the Coppers to boyl; and though they cannot
be exprest here, by reason they are under the Coppers; yet, I have
made small semi-circles, to let you see where they are, behinde the
partition-wall, which divides the fire-room from the boyling-house;
which wall goes to the top of the house, and is mark’d with the
Letter (_c_) as the other walls are.
[Sidenote: _S_]
A little Gutter made in the wall, from the Cistern that holds the
first Liquor, to the clarifying Copper, and from thence is conveyed
to the other Coppers, with Ladles that hold a gallon a piece, by the
hands of Negres that attend that work day and night, shifting both
Negres and Cattle every four hours, who also convey the skimmings
of the three lesser Coppers down to the Still-house, there to be
twice distill’d; the first time it comes over the helme, it is but
small, and is called Low-wines; but the second time, it comes off the
strongest Spirit or Liquor that is potable.
[Sidenote: _T_]
All Windowes.
[Sidenote: _U_]
The Fire-room, where the Furnaces are, that make the Coppers boyl.
[Sidenote: _W_]
The Still-house.
[Sidenote: _X_]
The Cistern that holds the skimmings, till it begin to be soure, till
when, it will not come over the helme.
[Sidenote: _Y_]
The two Stills in the Still-house.
[Sidenote: _Z_]
The Semi-circles, that shew where about the Furnaces stand.
_Place this after_ Folio 84.
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