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built for their accommodation in the woods 
at a small ex pence. 
The great labour requisite for conveying the 
sap from the trees, that grow so far apart, to 
the boiling house, has been adduced as another 
objection to the establishment of an extensive 
sugar manufactory in the woods* 
The sap, as I have before observed, is col- 
lected by private families, by setting a vessel, 
into wich it drops, under each tree, and from 
thence carried by hand to the place where it 
is to be boiled* If a regular manufactory, 
however, were established, the sap might be 
conveyed to the boiling house with far less la¬ 
bour ; small wooden troughs might be placed 
under the wounds in each tree, by which 
means the sap might easily be conveyed to 
the distance of twenty yards, if it were thought 
necessary, into reservoirs. Three or four of 
these reservoirs might be placed on an acre, 
and avenues opened through the woods, so as 
to admit carts with proper vessels to pass from 
one to the other, in order to convey the sap 
to the boiling houses. Mere sheds would an¬ 
swer for boiling houses, and these might be 
erected at various different places on the estate, 
in order to save the trouble of carrying the sap 
a great way. 
The expence of cutting down a few trees, 
so as to clear an avenue for a cart, would not 
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