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NEW PROCESS FOR. CLAYING SUGARS. 



them for fonie days expofed to 

 the air, in order to deprive 

 them of part of their humidity 

 which is retained by that of 

 the forms, when carried imme- 

 diately to the ftove : I after- 

 wards break them into large 

 pieces *, and at the fame time 

 I feparate the whiter fugar 

 from the reft. By this means 

 the workmen are faved the la- 

 bour of dividing the fame fu- 

 gar, as is commonly done, in a 

 hot (love which frequently 

 mud not be fuffered to cool 

 without the danger of injuring 

 the quality of the fugar, and 

 which, on account of the 

 length of time they remain in 

 it, difpofes them to contract 

 dangerous difeafes. 



FIFTH ADVANTAGE. 



The laft of the advantages which I lhall mention, and which 

 is not the leafl: important, is that of economy. 



irovc, where the loaves are 

 depofited upon frames, after 

 the head, which is flill wet with 

 fyrup, has been feparated from 

 them. For, without this pre- 

 caution, it would flow back 

 into the mafs, diminifh its 

 whitenefs, and render tjae fu- 

 gar more liable to attract the 

 moifture of the atmofphere. 

 Some days afterwards thefe 

 forms are cut in pieces, in or- 

 der to complete the deficcation 

 of the fugar, and to feparate 

 the whiteft parts from the 

 more coloured. 



It is very ex- 



It is known that it would 

 colt an immenfe fum to thofe 

 who, likemyfelf, being with- 

 out forms and pots, are under 

 the neceflity of providing 

 cheap and earfily themfelves with them, fince it 

 is almoft impoffible to procure 

 them, now that the Saints and 

 Martinique are in the power 



pen five, and 

 fometimes diffi 

 cult to procure 

 the forms and 

 pots; but this 

 apparatus is 



With little expence, I con- 

 ftrudt and eftablifli 32 cafes, 

 which fupply the place of 802 

 forms and as many pots, and 

 by this means avoid the great 

 loflTes occafioned by the daily- 

 rupture of thefe veflels. 



of the enemy. 



I think it unneceflary to recapitulate the obfervations con- 

 tained in th ; s memoir, and only with that you may confider 

 them as having fome title to your approbation. 



# Which are likewife carried into the Hove, but which dry more 

 fpeedily than the loaves. 



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