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VII. An Account of the Method of making Sugar 
from the Juice of the Maple Tree in New En- 
gland. By Paul Dudley, £/<j> F. S. Conir 
muni cat ed by John Chamberlayne, Eft ]• 
M ApIe Sugar is made of the Juice of Upland Ma* 
pie, or Maple Trees that grow upon the High- 
lands. You box the Tree, as we call it, /. t. make a 
hole with an Axe, or Chizzel, into the Side o. the Tree, 
within a Foot of the Ground; the Box you make may 
hold about a Pint, and therefore it mull (helve inwards, 
or towards the bottom of the Tree; you mud alio bark 
the Tree above the Box, to fleer or diredt the Juice to 
the Box. . 
You mud alfo Tap the Tree with a (mail Gimblet be- 
low your Box, fo as to draw the Liquor off. When you 
have pierced or tapp’d your Tree, or Box, you pot in a 
Reed, or Pipe, or a bit of Cedar fcored with a Chan- 
nel, and put a Bowl, Tray, or (mail Cask at the Foot of 
the Tree, to receive your Liquor, and fo tend the Vel- 
fels as they are full. . . D - 
After you have got your Liquor, you boil it in a r ot, 
Kettle, or Copper. Ten Gallons will make fomewhat 
better than a pound of Sugar. 
It becomes Sugar by the thin part evaporating in the 
boiling, for you mud boil it rill it is as thick as Treacle. 
Ten Gallons mud boil till it comes to a pint and half. 
A Kettle of twenty Gallons will be near 16 Hours in 
boiling, before you can reduce it to three Pints; a good 
Eire may do it tooner. 
When, 
