72 AN ACCOUNT of Tue 
infe&ts and worms which prey upon it, and of courfe mix 
with it, compofe a page in a nomenclature of natural hif- 
tory. I fhall fay nothing of the hands which are employ- 
ed in making fugar in the Weft-Indies but, that men who 
work for the exclufive benefit of others, are not under the 
fame obligations to keep their perfons clean while they are 
employed in this work, that men women and children 
are, who work exclufively for the benefit of them/elves, 
and who have been educated in the habits of cleanlinefs. 
The fuperior purity of the maple fugar is farther proved 
by its leaving a lefs fediment when diflolved in water than 
the Weit-India fugar. 
It has been fuppofed that the maple fugar is inferior to 
the Weft-India fugar in frength. The experiments which 
led to this opinion, I fufpe&t have been inaccurate, or have 
been made with maple fugar, prepared in a flovenly man- 
ner. Ihave examined equal quantities by weight of both 
the grained and the loaf fugar, in hyfon tea, and in cof- 
fee, made in every refpect equal by the minuteft circum- 
ftances that could affect the quality or tafte of each of them, 
and could perceive no inferiority in the ftrength of the 
maple fugar. The liquors which decided this queftion 
were examined at the fame time, by Alexander Hamilton, 
Efq. Secretary of the treafury of the United States, Mr, 
Henry Drinker, and feveral Ladies, who all concurred in 
the above opinion. 
2. Whoever confiders that the gift of the fugar maple 
trees is from a benevolent Providence, that we have many 
millions of acres in our country covered with them, that 
the tree is improved by repeated tappings, and that the 
fugar is obtained by the frugal labor of a farmer’s family, 
and atythe fame time confiders the labor of cultivating the 
fugar cane, the capitals funk in fugar works, the firft 
coft of flaves and cattle, the expenfes of provifions for 
both of them, and in fome inftances the additional Aer 
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