94 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
as the manufacture of gunpowder and of sake, the testing of the 
precious metals, the making of alum and other saline products, 
and the intelligent use of indigo, madder, and other dye stuffs. 
We have sought to bring into view the historical relations that 
subsist between the making of midzu ame, which long ago became 
an article of economic importance in Japan, as the national sweet, 
so to say, and the malt products of our early European ancestors, 
which really represent glimmerings of industrial efforts directed 
towards the same end. It is not improbable that these efforts 
might eventually have resulted in success, if pursued on the origi- 
nal lines, had it not been for the fact that they were checked, or 
smothered, as it were, by the advent of cane sugar. Practically 
it happened that it is only in comparatively recent times that the 
making of glucose, whether by means of malt or of acids, has 
been brought by the western nations to the perfection attained 
long ago by the Japanese. | 
