EARLY USE OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 35 
shipped to the West Indies and Central and South America; and 
the direct connection with the producers, thus early established, was 
maintained until recent years. 
In giving an account of the manufactures in Boston, in 1794, J. L. 
Bishop, in his ‘‘ History of American Manufactures,’’ says: ‘‘ Choc- 
olate had long been 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 Ibs. daily.’ 
