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possess, it has a peculiar fatty matter, known as cocoa butter, which sometimes amounts to half the contents of the seed. It is this excess of fat which renders it liable to disagree with some susceptible stomachs, but the mixture of farinaceous matter and sugar tend in a known as Chocolate, which is simply the cocoa bean ground and flavoured with sugar, vanilla, almonds, cinnamon, or what not, according to taste. It is in a dry form the most popular of sweetmeats, although the adulterations practised by low class firms, in order to sell a cheap article, are many, owing to its high price ; yet the goods of first-rate firms like Menier, Fry, Cadbury, and others, may be taken without suspicion, and are — eood ! ! There are pseudo cocoas, as there are pseudo coffees and teas. The Guarana, or Brazilian Cocoa {^Patillina ; a ground nut, the Arachis hypogeia, used in the Cyperus esculentus, or earth chestnut, in Spain, are the chief great measure to obviate this inconvenience. In another method of manufacture it is sorbilis) South Carolina, Angola, and elsewhere ;

but it is needless to say that none com-

substitutes ;

Alas

pare with the TiiEOBROMA.

that it should be

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adulterated.

A.

J.