}^p2. sugof raised in Britain. 3ji 



of each county to pluck up by the roots the plants that pro- 

 duce it, as he is required to do i^th regard to tobacco ; 

 and I trust the asra is past, in which the nation will submit 

 to the enactment of a new law, by which its people fliould 

 be effectually debarred from cultivating their own fields 

 to the best advantage. This would, indeed, be submitting 

 to a slavery more cruel than the bondage of the Israelites 

 in Egypt. 



Many plants, that are natives of Britain, can be made to 

 yield sugar in considerable quantities, as has been fully de- 

 monstrated by a set of experiments, conducted with great 

 care, about forty years ago, by a celebrated French chemist. 

 It is unnecefsary to enumerate the whole here. It is 

 enough to say, that he found no plant which aftorded so 

 much sugar as the root of the common green beet ; a plant 

 which can be reared with as much facility as any one that 

 grows in our climate. 



The result of many trials fairly ascertained, that from 

 sixteen ounces of the frefli root, one ounce of grained 

 sugar can be obtained. From this fact, we may compute 

 what might be the produce in sugar from an acre of 

 ground in this way. 



A Scots acre *, it is well known, has been made to produce, 

 in one season, seventy-two tons of parsr.ip root. I sup- 

 pose an equal weight of beet root could be obtained ; but, 

 for the sake of moderation, call it only sixty tons j at that 

 rate an acre might produce 8400 pounds of sugar at one 

 crop J which at threepence per pound, would be worth 

 precisely one hundred guineas. 1 he root of scarcity, 

 which is a plant of the same genus, and yields roots 

 more flefliy and free from fibres, might probably be found 

 to yic-ld an equal quantity of sugar, and could perhaps 

 be cultivjtted with more profit than the common beet. 



♦ Four Scotch acri-i iuc nearly equal to fivs Er.jjlifli. 



