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Ije given, to afcertain whether fuch a fubftance as 

 fugar is not obtainable from this lufcious fruit when 

 thus prepared by fire. I need not add, what 1 con- 

 ceive muft appear from what has preceded, that in 

 fomc inftances it may fcrve as a fucccdaneum to 

 leflen the confumption of what is now, by the man-r 

 ner of its being obtained, become obnoxious to the 

 public fenfibilityj and the extradling this qualitjr, 

 from a fruit eafily propagated, (congenial, if not; 

 native, to our climate) will in its confequence be 

 favourable to the intereft as well ^s convenience of 

 this kingdom.* 



* 1 wifli to add to what I have mentioned in niy 

 former communication on this fubjed, of the mode 

 in which this fruit may be propagated, and in addi- 

 tion to hawthorn flocks, obferve, that they take 

 with known facility upon the quince, the flocks of 

 which may be eafily propagated by their cuttings. 



I farther wifh to obferve, that in unifon with 

 the fpirit of difinterefted patriotifm, which hath dif- 

 tinguiflied the Bath Society, they may find it eligi- 

 ble to encourage the reception of feeds or feminal 

 plants of the acer faccharinum of America: and I 



• Sq far as this is conneded with the political' intereft of the 

 nation, deeper coniiderations are involved, 



may 



