Sugar factory and plantation in the West Indies, 1686. Cane is crushed in a horse or mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (centre left) from where the juice is gravity-fed to tanks by the boiling house. From Description de l'Univers by Allain Manesson Mallet. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1686).
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