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is principally drawn from the West India 

 accounts ; the Eastern methods are so simi- 

 lar, that to describe them would be needless 

 repetition. The clayed sugar is made at ]>a- 

 tavia. 



Great Britain affords . several vegetables 

 from which sugar may be obtained; as beet- 

 roots, skerrets, parsnips, potatoes; celery, red- 

 cabbage stalks, the birch-tree, &c. During 

 the late war, when Bonaparte prohibited the 

 introduction of colonial produce into Franc 

 considerable quantities of tolerably good 

 sugar were made in that country from beet- 

 roots ; but, the expense being much more 

 considerable than it could be procured for 

 from the Indies, this manufacture dropped 

 with the war. 



Nature, whose bounty is even greater than 

 the wants of man, has supplied the inhabi- 

 tants of the colder parts of North America, 

 where the sugar-cane would not grow, with 

 an excellent substitute, which affords a . i ac- 

 charine juice, nearly as valuable as that of 

 the cane, and without the expense of cul 

 vation. In the extensive forests of this 

 country, particularly about Kentucky, and 

 the remoter parts of Pennsylvania, is found 

 a great number of trees of the Maple spe- 



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