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pounds, which at 6 — 90 of a dollar per pound will yield an 

 atinual profit to the farmer of 80 dollars. Should this mode 

 of tranfplanting for the purpofe of obtaining fugar be fuc- 

 cefsful, it will not be a new one. The fugar cane of the 

 Weft Indies was brought originally from the woods of the 

 Eaft Indies by the Portuguese, and cultivated at Madeira, 

 from whence it was tranfplanted dire&ly or indirectly to all 

 the fugar iflands of the Weft Indies. 



In contemplating the prefent opening profpe&s in human 

 affairs, I am led to expecl that a material fhare of the hap- 

 pinefs which Heaven feems to have prepared for all man- 

 kind, will be derived chiefly from the manufactory and 

 general ufe of the maple fugar, which I flatter myfelf will 

 not be confined to us, but will extend itfelf to other na- 

 tions. With this vie\v of the fubjecl, I cannot help contem- 

 plating a fugar American maple tree with a fpecies of affec- 

 tion and even veneration; for I have perfuaded myfelf to 

 behold in it the happy means of rendering the commerce 

 and flavery of our African brethren in the Weft India iflands 

 as unneceffary as it has always been inhuman and unjuft * r 



XV. An Account of Mr. Park's Journey into the Interior 

 Parts of Africa. From the Proceedings of the African 

 Affociation, 1798. 



J. HE account of the proceedings of the African Affo- 

 ciation, from which the following extracl is taken, though it 

 abounds with many curious particulars which we have been 

 obliged to omit, contains but a fmall part of the information 

 obtained by Mr. Park during the courfe of his peregrina- 

 tions in the wild regions of Africa. A detailed relation of 



• The friends to the abolition of the Slave Trade fhould not allow the 

 information contained in this article to efcape their notice. It would re- 

 quire very little expence or indaftry to introduce the fugar maple into 

 England, where it would probably thrire as well as in Ameuca. T. 



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