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of rum instead of the cane trash now used zsfuel: this 

 cane trash, by being kept a due time in heaps, and after- 

 wards mixed with alkaline salts, might be returned 'to the land 

 as manure, instead of being dissipated or thrown into the air 

 by combustion. 



The different extracts from Mr. EDWARDS'S work here 

 alluded to, are subjoined in the Appendix. 



The Author hopes, that by candid readers allowance 

 will be made for the imperfections necessarily attendant 

 on all works of this or any other kind, when sent to the 

 press as composed, without due time having been taken 

 either to revise the composition, or to correct typogra- 

 phical errors, several of which occur in this work, and 

 a list of which is subjoined to the Table of Contents. 



The public are requested to view the preceding Trea- 

 tise more in the light of suggestions and hints, than a 

 full and complete treatise on the different subjects. The 

 Author requests permission to correct an expression 

 which had very inadvertently crept into the Preface, 

 page 8, wherein he says, " The Author flatters himself 



G g 2 " that 



