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The Savages in Canada, when the sap rises in the Maple, by an CHAP.XIL 

 incision in the tree, extract the liquor; and having evaporated a 

 reasonable quantity thereof, (as suppose seven or eight pounds) there 

 will remain one pound as sweet and perfect sugar as that which is 

 gotten out of the cane ; part of which sugar has been for many years 

 constantly sent to Rouen in Normandy, to be refined : There is also 

 made of this sugar an excellent syrup of Maiden-hair and other capillary 

 plants, prevalent against the scurvy ; though Mr. Ray thinks otherwise, 

 by reason of the saccharine substance remaining in the decoction. — ■ 

 See Synops. Stirp. et Dendrolog. de Acere. 



