AGRICULTURE WITH CHEMISTRY. ^jy 



" cheerfulness as to soften in a great measure the hard- 

 " ships of slavery, and induce a spedtator to hope, when 

 " the miseries of Ufe are said to be unsupportable, that 

 " they are sometimes exaggerated through the medium 

 " of fancy^" 



On this there is the following note. — " He (says honest 

 SLAREthe physician) that luidertakes to argue against 

 " sweets in general, takes upon him a very difficult task, 

 " for nature seems to have recommended this taste to ail 

 " sorts of creatures; the birds of the air, the beasts of 

 " the field, many reptiles and flics, seem to be pleased 

 " and delighted with the specific relish of all sweets, and 

 " to distaste its contrary. Now the sugar-cane, or sugar, 

 " I hold for the top and highest standard of vegetable 

 *' sweets." " Sugar is obtainable in some degree from most 

 " vegetables, and Dr. Cullen is of opinion, that sugar 

 *' is diredly nutritious. There is also good reason to sup- 

 " pose, that the general use of svigar in Euroi)e has had 

 *' the effe6l of extinguishing the scurvy, the plague, and 

 " many other diseases formerly epidemical." 



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