Reports From the Secretary of the Treasury, of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers, 1848 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Reports From the Secretary of the Treasury, of Scientific Investigations in Relation to Sugar and Hydrometers, 1848The Senate having ordered a revised edition of the reports contained in this document to be printed, the labor of that revision was cheerfully undertaken without compensation, and it has been executed as faithfully and thoroughly as time and other circumstances have per mitted. A careful revision, particularly of those portions which relate to the manufacture of sugar, was very necessary, for the reasons that, in the first or preliminary report, opinions had been expressed which subsequent and more complete information modified, that the third report was originally written so rapidly, and with such little opportunity for correction, that the occurrence of errors in it could not be entirely prevented and that inaccuracies might have misled the manufacturers. To have recast the whole series and presented the parts relating to the sugar industry in an entlrel y new and digested form, with such additional in formation as the progress of science and the arts has recently developed. Would, in the opinion of the writer, have rendered it more complete and better adapted to the wants of those on gaged in that industry. But to perform this, neither authority, time, nor the requisite facilities were possessed by him. To supply, though but in part and imperfectly, what such a work might have containsd, as well as to avoid changing and interpolating the text of the original reports to a very considerable extent, an appendix has been added. It, however, is by no mans complete, and is not designed to present all that is new and important, but only some matters which are considered worthy of attention. To others better qualified, by practical as well as theoretical knowledge, the important task of furnishing a complete trea tise on the sugar industry should be left.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.