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ten in Erpehuee ‘tgs “ The Village,” the following lines are 
bestowed upon 
* More sacred than the thunder chosen oak 
the 
eo “The ueen of trees, thou pro sadist ue? st on high, 
“ Yet wave thy limbs in graceful plian cy.” 
* * * + * x 
Sa the bark gives a black colour with the salts of iron. 
In many places thread and other stuffs are coloured black 
with a decoction of the bark = this as well as that of the 
red maple, and ink is made o 
the first volume of Tilloch’s magazine is an account of 
the manufacture of sugar from the sugar maple in the mid- 
dle states by the late Dr. Rush of Philadelphia, from which 
the following particulars are abstracted: 
1. One tree yields from twenty to thirty gallons of sap in 
a season, which will make from five to six pounds of sugar, 
and in a single instance twenty pounds were made from one 
tree in a season. 
2. One man made six hundred and forty pounds in four 
weeks. 
3. A man ard his two sons made eighteen hundred 
pounds in a season 
4. That wae tree improves by tapping, affording more 
tia better sa 
5. The sugar is of a better quality than West-India sugar. 
6. A farmer in North-Hampton county (Penn.) improv- 
ed the quality of the maple sap by calvare;:2 so that he ob- 
* According to my observations the sap improves in quality but 3 much 
‘diminish nished in quantity. 
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