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
[Illustration: _The upright of the Ingenio or Mill that squeeses or
grinds the Suger Canes_
_a. the foundation or plates of the house which must be of massey
and lasting timber_
_b. the frame of the Ingenio_
_c. the planks that beare up the Rollers_
_d. the suporter or propp that beares upp those planks_
_e. the Rollers themselves_
_f. the shaft that is grafted into the midle roller which turnes
both the other_
_g. the swepes that come over all y^e worke and reach to y^e Circle
where the horses and Cattle draw._
_h. the Bracketts that keepe the frame from shakeing whereof there
must be 8._
_i. the sides of the house which are strong posts or studds which
beare up the house and are plact att ten foote distance with
Brackets above and below to strengthen them for beareing up the
plates of the house above._
_k. the out Brackets that keepe the posts from starting or buckling_
_l. the great Beame to which the Shaft of the midle Roller is let
in by a goudg in a sockett and goes cross the midle of the house_
_m. the Brackets that support the great beame and likewise all the
Roofe of the house_
_n. the Roofe or cover of the house._]
[Illustration: _The first Storie of the Cureing house where the potts
stand which hold the Suger and is 8. foote 2 inches from the ground
haveing 14. steps to rise of 7. inches to a stepp._
_In this storie is 924. potts and they use to have another storie
above this which will hold above 600. potts more_
_The Index of the Cureing house._
_a. the roome where they knock out the suger when it is cured,
or made into whites, and is called the knocking roome; when they
knock it out for muscavados, they finde the midle of the pott well
coloured, but the upper and nether parts, of a browner colour
the topp frothy and light, the bottom verie browne and full of
Molosses, both which they sett aside to be boyld againe with the
Mosses in the Cisterns of which they make Penneles, which though it
be a worse kind of suger in the spending yet you will hardly know
it from the second sort of Muscove suger_
_b. the two dores_
_c. the passages betweene the potts upon the flour above_
_d. the great passage in the midle of the rome from end to end_
_e. the topps of the potts which are .16. inches square and hang
betweene stantions of timber borne up by verie strong and Massy
studs or posts and girded or bract together with Iron plates or
wood, the length of the potts are 2.6. or 2.8. inches long made
taper downeward, and hold about .30. pound of suger._
_f. the walls of the roome which is 100. foot long and 40. foot
broade within, they have some tymes a storie of potts above this._]
[Illustration: _The ground roome of the Cureing house of the place
where the gutters ly w^{ch} convey y^e Molosses to y^e Cisterns_
_The Index to the ground roome._
_a. the knocking roome._
_b. the dores_
_c. the vacuitie betweene the gutters_
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