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certain process — a s|)ccialliy of the firm — and the suljsiancc is 

 left |x:rfccily ilry. This is s|x,'edily reduced to an impalpabh: 

 |X)\vder, and the well-known and absolutely pure Cocoii Essence, 

 for which the firm is so celebrated, is complete. 



Many millions of mill-board Ixjxes, to contain the Cocoa 

 Essence, h.ive to be made yearly, ami it may therefore Ix; reailily 

 supjx)sed that the box-makinj^ dej);irtnunt is one of considerable 

 imj)ortance. The demand Ix-'inj^ so enormous, the firm em{)loy 

 elaborately-constructed machinery to meet their requirements. 

 One machine cuts the board into the retjuired shape, while 

 another i^lues the parts toj^ether and j)erfects the j)acket-shell, the 

 output averai^ins^ about 5.ooodaily from each of the seven machines. 

 They work with perfect rej^ularily. antl demonstrate the state of 

 perfection to which labour-siivini( inventions have been brou<^ht. 

 The boxes are removed by means of a hollow baiul. and forwarded 

 to the packini^-room, where numbers of busy hands are fillinj^, 

 wrappinl^^ ami labcllini^^ the jiackets. 



We now come to the second branch of manufacture, wiiun is 

 of considerable commercial imi)ortance. and very extensive. 

 Sweet Chocolate, fnr eatin;^ and drinkinj^s forms the most 

 delicious of all confections or beveraj^es, and C(Koa pre|>;ired in 

 this w.iy is another of the sjxrcialties of the firm. T ■ il.' 

 manufacture of the numerous varieties this last secti<.»n of the 

 factory is devoted. The pure Coccxi is. in the first place, incor|x>- 

 nited with white su;;ar in what is called a " Melani^eur." This 

 mixin;^ machine consists of a round, i^ranite, revolvinv; slab, form- 

 in;^ a jxin, the sides beinjj of steel. Into this receptacle the C<Koa 

 and su;^ar are poured, and two sets of heavy, stationar)*, j^^ninitc 



