An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it, together with observations upon the advantages both public and private of this sugar. : In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. secretary of state of the United States, and one of the vice presidents of the American Philosophical Society. : Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the third volume of their Transactions now in the press. / By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

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Author:	Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Title:	An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it, together with observations upon the advantages both public and private of this sugar. : In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. secretary of state of the United States, and one of the vice presidents of the American Philosophical Society. : Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the third volume of their Transactions now in the press. / By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Print source:	An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it, together with observations upon the advantages both public and private of this sugar. : In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. secretary of state of the United States, and one of the vice presidents of the American Philosophical Society. : Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the third volume of their Transactions now in the press. / By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813., Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826., American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia:: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, Market Street, for a society of gentlemen., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
Subject terms:	Maple sugar.
URL:	https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19030.0001.001
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUGAR MAPLE-TREE OF THE UNITED STATES, And of the Methods of obtaining SUGAR from it, together with Observations upon the Advantages both public and private of this Sugar. In a Letter to THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq. Secretary of State of the United States, and one of the Vice-Pre|sidents of the American Philosophical Society, by BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D. Professor of the Institutes and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

Extracted from the Third Volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, now in the Press, and pub|lished at the request and for the use of a number of respec|table Citizens in the different States.

Extract from the report of the Committe of Privy Council for trade on the subject of the African Slave trade, &c. To the King, Part 3. No. 3. Mr. Botham on the mode of cultivating a su|gar plantation in the East-Indies, &c.