86 A Letter on the ManufaSlure of Maple Sugar, 



expefted from the face of the country in years to come than at 

 prefent — granted; butjuft fo may the manufadure offugarbe 

 increafcd. One acre of good fugar land, properly attended to, 

 will yield every year during the continuance of the foreft, feven 

 pounds worth of fugar ; allow one half for the labour and pro- 

 vifions, then the intereft o^ £ . 50 is left for real value of the 

 lands or trees, becaufe they will always with attention pay the 

 intereft of that fum, which is much greater than can poffibly be 

 afforded for any lands to be made ufe of on the principles of 

 the prefent mode of farming. And if fuch advantages as I 

 have pointed out will refult from the manufactory advifed, what 

 may we not look forward to when the minds of men are become 

 fo liberal as to view liberty in its true light — when flavery fhall 

 be done away. To this day the prefent generation look, and 

 the fucceeding one will no doubt put it in praftice ; then the 

 Weft-India planter muft prepare more expenfive provifions for 

 his labourers, not to mention wages and other expences which 

 confequently attend the hireling. Common fenfe leads us to 

 fuppofe that fugar muft continually rife in that quarter. 



How much blood and treafure has been expended in pro- 

 teBing the fugar plantations of the Weft-India iflands, and kings 

 and parliaments deeply interefted in the event ? whilft we here 

 without exercifmg the lafh of cruelty on our fellow creatures I 

 without cultivation from year to year, have thefe fo much fought 

 for excellencies plentifully given to us by the bountiful hand 

 of nature, and whilft they are fpending their M^ealth to proteft. 



