A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
said before. Now these two fifths are, as you see 55072 acres, and an
acre of good Canes will yield 4000 pound weight of Sugar, and none
will yield lesse then 2000 weight; but we will take a _Medium_, and
rest upon 3000 weight, upon which we will make our computation, and
set our price upon the Sugar, according to the lowest rates, which
shall be 3 d. per pound, as it is Muscavado, to be sold upon the
Iland, at the _Bridge_. In fifteen months the Canes will be ripe,
and in a month more, they will be well cur’d, and ready to be cast
up, and stowed in the Ware-house. So here, we make our computation
upon the place, and say, 3000 threepences is 37 l. 10 s. ten acres
of which is 375 l. sterling. So then we say, if 10 acres of Canes
will produce 375 l. what shall 55072. which is the number of acres
contained upon the ⅖ of the land, allotted for Sugar Plantations,
upon which the Canes must grow: and by the Rule of 3. we finde, that
it amounts to 2065200. in sixteen months: Now add four months more to
the time of cureing, and
10 ---- 375 l.
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55072 ---- 2065200 l.
55072
375
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275360
385504
165216
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2065200(0
2065200
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4130400
1032600
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3097800
3097800
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6195600
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