. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. , have a clean and trim appearance. Thisis not the case, however, with the sugar warehouse,the floors of which are saturated with the saccharinejuice ; and the quay, upon which, at the time of ourvisit, bags of Mauritius sugar were being landed,was literally swimming with molasses, so that onestuck at every footstep. Sugar is imported in variouskinds of packages—the large hogsheads, often seen ingrocers shops, are the most unwieldy ; they are,however, the most cleanly in appearance ; for thoughupon l
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. , have a clean and trim appearance. Thisis not the case, however, with the sugar warehouse,the floors of which are saturated with the saccharinejuice ; and the quay, upon which, at the time of ourvisit, bags of Mauritius sugar were being landed,was literally swimming with molasses, so that onestuck at every footstep. Sugar is imported in variouskinds of packages—the large hogsheads, often seen ingrocers shops, are the most unwieldy ; they are,however, the most cleanly in appearance ; for thoughupon landing their contents is more than apparent,owing to the sugar oozing through between the staves,they have not that soddened, dirty appearance thatthe bags have ; for most of the Mauritius sugarcomes in loosely made bags, formed with the leavesof Pandanus utilis, and the East Indian sugar ingunny bags woven from Jute : both of these becomeso thoroughly soaked with sugar that after beingemptied of their contents they are sold to itinerantdealers, who boil them to extract the sugar and sel. Fig. 3.—agave scolymus var. saundersh. of merchandise, the different docks—at which some ofthe noblest vessels discharge their valuable and variedcargoes, and ship others for transference to distantparts of the world. We may read of shiploads ofthis, that, or the other commodity being brought tothis country, and perchance consumed by the popu-lation ; we may also study tables of statistics, andexpress susprise at the mass of figures, but we haveno idea of the actual bulk of any special productunless we happen to see a ship unloading, or, stillbetter, pay a visit to the store buildings or ware-houses of one of our great import docks. These thoughts are brought to mind from what wasseen in the course of an hour or two on a recent visit tothe West India Docks. In the lofty warehouses risingfrom the landing quays of these extensive recep-tacles of foreign merchandise, are stowed property ofa
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