96 PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE. 
The cane sugar cannot be induced to crystallize while 
any considerable quantity of the substances with which it 
is thus associated is present in the solution. To break 
this alliance is, then, the great desideratum, and, as already 
stated, the merits of the system of manufacture hereafter 
to be described, will be found to consist mainly in the high 
degree of completeness, ease, and economy with which this 
is done. The means used, both chemical and mechanical, 
have been studiously adapted to each other and to the end 
in view. 
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