Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 16, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 71
Additional Source Text:
"From Mr. Labat's calculation, One hundred thousand weight of Beat's gave 10 Pots of very Black molases weigh[t] of each 50 [lb?] and the 10 Pots made 2 loafs of Sugar of 22 pounds each, such as the Specimen."
Notes:
Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663-1738) was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner in the West Indies. On Martinique, Labat devised new methods for the manufacture of sugar, which remained in use for a long time. Labat had a sugar refinery at Mignaux, near Poissy, northwest of Paris.
