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monly used, — more like our candy; — and it 

 is within a hundred years that the sugar-cane 

 was first brought to this country and cultivated 

 to some extent in Louisiana, on the very place 

 where the city of New Orleans now stands. But 

 the planter was not able to do any more than 

 make syrup, not perhaps ever expecting to make 

 sugar ; yet we see since that time hundreds of 

 thousands of hogsheads have been produced 

 every year. Why may not the same results fol- 

 low the introduction of the new Chinese sugar- 

 cane? The following account is given of the 

 first experiment of sugar-making in that state : 



*' Towards the close of the last century,'' says 

 the highest authority, " a gentleman residing in 

 the vicinity of New Orleans determined to 

 attempt the manufacture of sugar. The crop 

 was properly increased, the machinery procured, 

 and a sugar-maker procured from the West 

 Indies. The result of the experiment was anx- 

 iously looked for by the whole surrounding coun- 

 try. The inhabitants of New Orleans and its 

 neighborhood assembled in great numbers, but 

 remained outside of the building, probably 

 through fear that the experiment would not suc- 

 ceed. The strike was made amidst profound 

 silence ; when the * second ' was thrown into 



