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of conveying the fugar to a market, in all the Weft-India 
Iflands, will not hefitate in believing that the maple fugar 
may be manufactured much cheaper, and fold at a /e/s price 
than that whichis made in the Weft-Indies. 
3. The refources for making a fufficient quantity of 
this fugar not only for the confumption of the United 
States, but for exportation, will appear from the follow- 
ing facts. There are in the {tates of New-York, and 
Pennfylvania alone at leait ten millions of acres of land 
which produce the fugar maple-tree, in the proportion of 
thirty trees to one acre. ow fuppoling all the perfons 
capable of labor in a family to confift of three, and 
each perfon to attend 150 trees and eachtree to yield slb of 
fugar in a feafon, the produc of the labor of 60,000 fami- 
lies would be 135,000,000 pounds of fugar, and allow- 
ing the inhabitants of the United States to compofe 600,000 
families each of which confumed 200 pounds of fugar in 
a year, the whole confumption would be 120,000,000 
poundsina year, which would leave a balance of 1 5,000,009 
pounds for exportation. Valuinz the fugar at .°, of 
a dollar per pound thefum faved tothe United States would 
be 8,000,000 dollars by home confumption and the fum 
gained by exportation would be 1,000,000 dollars. The 
only part of this calculation that will appear improbable 
is, the number of families {uppofed to be employed in the 
manufactory of the fugar, but the difficulty of admitting 
this fuppofition will vanith vhen we contider, that double 
that number of fanitlies are employed every year in mak- 
ing cyder, thetrouble, rifks and expencesof which areal 
much _reater than thofe of makiny maple jugar. 
But the proiit of the Mapletree 1s not contined to its 
fugar. It affords an agreeable Molailes, and an excellent 
Vinegar. The fap which is fuitable for thefe parpofes is 
obtained after the fap which a!fords the fugar has ceafed to 
flow, io that the manufactories of thefe different products 
of the maple tree, by /ucceeding, do not interfere with each 
You. If, K other, 
