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tre€ grows /pontancoufly, and where it is found 

 upon large tradts of land that muft remain for ages 

 before they can be fully cultivated, it is and will be 

 of confiderable ad/ancage to the inhabitants of the 

 country, and that the making of fugar from thofe 

 trees will become more and more an obje6t of con- 

 fequence, and be taken up and carried on by people 

 who will make a trade or bufinefs of it, although I 

 do not cxpeft America ever will make fufficient for 

 their own confumption j it being an article in fb 

 general ufe, the expenditure will mod probably 

 keep pace with the increafe of inhabitants. 



The fugar-maple tree grows of all fizes as large 

 as from three feet to three and a half or four feet 

 diameters and in the northweft parts of Pennfylvania, 

 are many of them from 80 to 90 feet high. As a 

 confirmation of my being able to form fome judg-t 

 ment of their height, I fhalljuft mention, that I had 

 a white pine-tree cut down for the purpofe of mea- 

 furing its height, and although not more than two 

 feet diameter, it meafured 146 feet high, fome 

 others near it were four feet diameter, and appeared 

 to be thirty feet higher. Trees of every fpecies in 

 that country were higher than I ever noticed them 

 any where clfe, 



Tho 



