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SUGAR MAPLE. 
Drinker, and several ladies, who all concurred in the 
above opinion. 
t£ 2. Whoever considers that the gift of the sugar 
maple trees is from a benevolent Providence, that 
we have many millions of acres in our country co- 
vered with them, that the tree is improved by re- 
peated tappings, and that the sugar is obtained by 
the frugal labour of a farmer’s family ; and at the 
same time considers the labour of cultivating the 
sugar-cane, the capitals sunk in sugar-works, the 
first cost of slaves and cattle, the expenses of pro- 
visions for both of them ; and in some instances 
the additional expense of conveying the sugar to a 
market, in all the West India islands, will not 
hesitate in believing that the maple sugar may 
be manufactured much cheaper, and sold at a less 
price, than that which is made in the West In- 
dies. 
“ 3. The resources for making a sufficient quan- 
tity of this sugar, not only for the consumption of 
the United States, but for exportation, will appear 
from the following facts : There are in the states of 
New York and Pennsylvania, alone, at least ten 
millions of acres of land which produce the sugar 
maple tree, in the proportion of thirty trees to one 
acre. Now, supposing all the persons capable of 
labour in a family to consist of three, and each per- 
son to attend 150 trees, and each tree to yield five 
pounds of sugar in a season ; the product of the la- 
bour of 60,000 families would be 135,000,000 
