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of rum instead of the cane trash now used as fuel: this cane trash, by being kept a due time in heaps, and after- wards mixed with alkaline salts, might be returned to the land as manure, instead of being dissipated or thrown into the air

by combustion.

The different extracts from Mr. Epwarpbs’s work here

alluded to, are subjoined in the Appendix.

The Author hopes, that by candid readers allowance will be made for the imperfections necessarily attendant on all works of this or any other kind, when sent to the press as composed, without due time having been taken either to revise the composition, or to correct typogra- phical errors, several of which occur in this work, and

a list of which is subjoined to the Table of Contents.

The public are requested to view the preceding Trea- tise more in the light of suggestions and hints, than a full and complete treatise on the different subjects. The Author requests permission to correct an expression which had very inadvertently crept into the Preface, page 8, wherein he says,° The Author flatters himself

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