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According to this estimate a pound of sugar costs the 

 manufacturer Sets., 84-100 ths, now the beet generally con- 

 tains 10 per cent, of saccharine matter susceptible of cry- 

 stallization and it is to the imprefection alone of the process 

 employed in extracting this, that is to be attributed their 

 obtaining at present but little more than half that amount. 

 If (as it is quite rational to anticipate,) we shall be able 

 to extract 8 per cent, the sugar, will then cost the manu- 

 facturer, but 2 cents. l-5th ! It is difficult to conjecture to 

 what a prodigious extent the consumption of an article of 

 such general use might increase by such an extraordinary 

 reduction in its cost, for there appears to be hardly any 

 limit to the use of sugar, but that which is drawn by an 

 inability to purchase it : whilsi Napoleon's continental sys- 

 tem prevailed, France consumed a fraction more than 1 lb. 

 •per head, per annum, now she consumes 3 lbs. fer head : 

 In England, where the price of sugar is more moderate, 

 than in France, and the ability of the people to purchase it, 

 generally speaking, greater, the consumption amounts to 

 sixteen \hs. per head\ In the East and West Indies, the 

 amount of sugar, used would almost exceed belief In the 

 Island of Cuba, for instance, it is asserted, that no less, than 

 120 lbs. per head, are consumed, by the free population ! 

 Whenever, then sugar shall cost, in this country, less than 

 flour, and half the price of meat, bm in digenous pro- 

 duction, free from all the contingencies of a foreign sup- 

 ply, and produced, and consumed almost on the same spot, 

 who can conceive the extent to which the use of sugar, 

 may attain ; and when it is considered how essentiaMy, 

 beneficial the culture of the beet is to the land, on which 

 it grows, we can hardly doubt that the wealth, and com- 

 forts, of our country will increase in an equal ratio, for 

 in fact, the result of this discovery, is to convert into a whol- 

 some and pleasa'it aliment for Man, a plant of which lit- 

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