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soever: simply boiled down into cakes with 
milk or whites of eggs it is very agreeable 
to the taste. 
The ingenious Dr. Nooth, of Quebec, who 
is at the head of the general hospital in Ca¬ 
nada, has made a variety of experiments upon 
the manufacture of maple sugar ; he has gra¬ 
nulated, and also refined it, so as to render it 
equal to the best lump sugar made in England. 
To convince the Canadians also, who are as in¬ 
credulous on some points as they are credulous 
on others, that it was really maple sugar which 
they saw thus refined, be has contrived,, to leave 
large lumps, exhibiting the sugar in its differ¬ 
ent stages towards refinement, the lower part 
of the lumps being left hard, similar to the 
common cakes, the middle part granulated, and 
the upper part refined. 
Dr. Nooth lias calculated, that the sale of 
the melasses alone would be fully adequate to 
the expence of refining the maple sugar, if a 
manufactory for that purpose were established,. 
Some attempts have been made to establish 
one of the kind at Quebec, but they have never 
succeeded, as the persons by whom they were 
made were adventurers that had not sufficient 
capitals for such an undertaking. It ought 
not, however, to be concluded from this, that 
a manufactory of the sort would not succeed if 
conducted by j udicious persons that had ample 
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