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some experiments have lately been made on 

 the maple or sugar-tree, so much spoken of 

 by the writers on America. I had two of 

 them growing on my farm : but it appear- 

 ed to me, that, if a man had no sugar but 

 what he made from the maple-tree, and he 

 knew no more of making that sort of sugar 

 than I do, if his wife were not a very patient 

 woman, her calmness would be tried ; or 

 she must learn to drink her tea without sugar. 

 From the best information I ever could get 

 on the subject, the making of sugar from that 

 tree is attended with more expence than it is 

 worth. I thought, from the representation, 

 that it was a very easy process ; but I was 

 mistaken: a man ought to serve an appren- 

 ticeship to a sugar-refiner and baker, to know 

 how to go about it. I doubt not that there 

 are trees in England, the juice of which 

 might produce sugar. But in the parts where 

 these trees are plentiful, it is cheaper to buy 

 sugar than to make it, even in those dear 

 countries. It is worthy of remark, that, in 

 every part of America where grain is cheap, 



