ABSTRACT
IN the Wars between Holland and Portugal in Brasil, a Dutch-Man arrived here from thence, who taught them the way of Planting and making Sugars. Barbados formerly used to buy the French and Dutch Sugars, making all that Trade go through their own hands, till in 1715, laying a Duty turned the Channel, and they would now make up that oversight by imposing their own Price on us. The French therefore were helped by this Sale, to afford their Sugars cheaper, and still more enabled by a nearer Way of Living by the Customs being taken off, allowing them to go thence to any Market, and other encouragements to undersell, and take the foreign Markets from us, who were clogged with those Inconveniencies. Lime refines from Impurities, and imparts a soster Taste, experienced in throwing it into Wells of hard Water; the best refin'd in Loaves comes back to the Sugar-Colonies from England, sell at 50 or 100 per Cent.
