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MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR. 



and so inducing persons to have expensive additions to 

 their machinery, for the purpose of extracting a substance 

 which has no existence. It is easy to perceive how inicro- 

 scopists have fallen into the error of supposing crystals of 

 sugar to exist in the cane, as the moisture dries so 

 rapidly from a thin slice that unless observed immediately 

 on being separated, crystals will have formed from its 

 evaporation. 



It is perfectly understood that no uncrystallizable sugar 

 or melasses pre-exists in the cane, but that the whole of the 

 18 or 20 per cent, of sugar existing in it is crystallizable. 

 and is procurable from it by adopting the proper means > 



