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Central and South America ; and the direct 

 connection with the producers, thus early 

 established, has ever since been maintained. 



In giving an account of the manufact- 

 ures in Boston, in i794> J- L. Bishop, in 

 his " History of American Manufactures," 

 says: "Chocolate had been long made 

 from the large'quantities of cocoa obtained 

 in the West India trade, and had been 

 greatly expedited by recent inventions. 

 The chocolate-mill of Mr. Welsh, at the 

 North End, could turn out 2,500 cwt. 

 daily." 



It is a curious fact that on the spot where 

 the industry was first started, nearly a 

 century and a quarter ago, the business has 

 continued and attained the highest develop- 

 ment. From the small beginning by Dr. 

 Baker there has grown up one of the 

 greatest establishments in the world, the 

 house of Walter Baker & Co., an estab- 

 lishment which competes successfully for 

 prizes in all the great industrial exhibitions 



