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without shelling them^ a quantity of suet being added during 

 the process of grinding. 



Amongst the poorer classes in Italy and Ireland a drink 

 is prepared from the husks which are separated in making 

 chocolate. These husks are largely imported from Trieste 

 and other Italian ports under the name of Miserable.''^ 

 It is said that the beverage prepared from this is very 

 wholesome and agreeable. Both chocolate and cocoa are 

 very much adulterated with wheaten and potato flour^ etc. 

 The quantity imported in 1851 (chiefly from Brazil^ Guaya- 

 quil^ and Trinidad) was about 2000 tons^ of which only 

 about 580 tons were re-exported. {Poole's Statistics,) 



SuGAE. — The saccharine matter from the juice of the 

 Sugar-cane^ Sacchamm officinaritm, (Nat. Ord. Gramina- 

 eecE.) (Plate I. fig. 5.) The Sugar of China^ of which 

 small quantities have reached this country^ is supposed to 

 be from S, Sinense, a distinct species.. 



That the Sugar-cane was known to the ancients is most 

 certain, as various of the writers of antiquity refer to it. 

 Dr. Pereira, in his elaborate and invaluable work on ' Materia 

 Medica and Therapeutics/ gives the following interesting 

 historical account of Sugar : — " The manufacture of sugar 

 is said by Humboldt to be of the highest antiquity in China. 



