Account of toe American Sugar Maple. i&y 



each tree to yield 5 pounds of fugar, the product of labour of 

 60,000 families would be 135,000,000 pounds of fugar, and, 

 allowing the inhabitants of the United States to compofe 

 600,000 families, each of which confumed 200 pounds of 

 fuo-ar a year, the whole confumption would be 120,000,000 

 pounds a year, which would leave a balance of 15,000,000 

 pounds for exportation. Valuing the fugar at 6 — 90 of a 

 dollar per pound, the fum fared would be 8,000,000 dollars 

 of home confumption, and the fum gained by exporUtion 

 would be 1,000,000 dollars. 



The maple fugar alfo affords excellent vinegar: its molafles 

 is capable of affording a very pleafant hammer beer. The 

 lap is alfo capable of producing fpirit; but we hope this 

 wholefomc juice will never be proftituted to fuch a purpofc. 

 A diet confilting of a plentiful admixture of fugar has many 

 advantages. 



Sugar affords the greateft quantity of nouriflimcnt In a 

 given quantity of matter of any fubftance in nature. Hence 

 the Indians ufe it in their excursions. They mix a certain 

 quantity of maple fugar with an equal quantity of Indian 

 corn, dried and powdered. This mixture is packed up in- 

 little bafkets. A few fpoonfuls of it mixed with half a pint 

 of fpring water, afford them a pleafing and ft lengthening 

 meal. From the great degree of ftrength and nouri foment 

 which are conveyed into animal bodies by a fmall bulk of 

 fugar, it maybe given to horfes with great advantage. A 

 pound of fugar with grafs or hay, I have been told, has fup- 

 ported the ftrength and fpirits of a horfe during a whole 

 day'.-; labour in one of the Weft India iflands. A larger 

 quantity given alone has fattened horfes and cattle during the 

 war before laft in Hifpaniola, for a period of feveral months, 

 in which the exportation of fugar and the importation of 

 grain were prevented by the want of fhips. 



3. A plentiful ufc of fugar is the heft preventative of 

 worms. The author of nature feems to have implanted a 

 love for fweets in all children for their growth, and to ward 

 off the difeafe of worms. 



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