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may farther notice, that with a large fample of re- 

 fined fugar, which I laft fummer received from 

 thence, I received a paper of its feeds; two plants 

 from which made their appearance in autumn, and 

 I perfuade myfelf more will in the enfuing fpring, 

 as thefe feeds are in formation and genus like our 

 maple feed, and I have no doubt but their habits 

 are like them, and afhen keys, which rarely vegetate 

 until they have laid in the earth at leaft one winter. 



It may not be improper to fubjoin an extradc from 

 a letter I received, with the above-mentioned fugar 

 and feeds, from a refpe(5lable chara6ler of Pennfyl- 

 vania, (viz. Henry Drinker) on the progrefs their 

 manufactory of fugar had made, dated in a fpring 

 month of 1 79 1. " Laft year one perfon brought 

 *^ to market from a neighbourhood not ten miles 

 ** fquare, about fifty tierces of this (brown maple) 

 *' fugar, weighing from twelve to fifteen tons. In 

 " all probability the exertions and advances made 

 " in this truly promifing bufinefs, will produce ten 

 ** times the quantity ever before made." 



I am, fmcerely and refpeftfully, &c. 



Nerzvicby Feb. JOHN WAGSTAFFE, 



24//&, 1792. 



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