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gentlemen have united, and engaged in their service. M. 

 Maxamin Isnard, French Vice Consul in Boston, a gfen- 

 tleman every way fitted to render them, and the cause, the 

 most efficient aid, he was amongst the very first in France, 

 to contribute his talents and labors to the success of this 

 discovery, and such was the confidence his services inspir- 

 ed, that he was appointed so early as 1811, by the Imperi- 

 al Government, superintendant of a school of instruction 

 established at Strasburg, at the public expense, for the 

 purpose of fitting young men to take the management of 

 the sugar manufactories, which were beginning then to 

 spring up in many parts of France. Mr. Isnard's chemic- 

 al knowledge, his experience long since acquired on this 

 subject, his extensive acquaintance with men of science, 

 and those largely interested in the manufacture of the beet 

 sugar, peculiarly fit him for the mission with which he is 

 intrusted of collecting every information as to the frtsent 

 state of the beet culture ; and most iipproved process of 

 extracting its sugar ; and, the voyage he has lately under- 

 taken with this view, cannot fail to produce important and 

 favorable results. 



Measures have already been adopted to insure for tha 

 approaching season a sufficiency of the sugar beet seed 

 to be distributed at cost to such farmers as may wish to 

 try it, they will be procured by Mr. Isnard himself in 

 France from the best sources and forwarded direct. We 

 have reason to expect to have at our disposal the approach- 

 ing season, a crop of two or three hundred acres of beets, 

 and the means of manufacturing them intd sugar, and the 

 experiment (if it can be called one) will be fairly made in 

 the course of the next year. We look with coiifidence to 

 our legislature for every support and encouragement which 

 our infant enterprize can fairly ask, the liberality extended 

 to the indigenous silk producers will not surely be with- 



