240 Manufacture of British Opium. 



drug by the process and apparatus above described, will be at 

 first a little dissatisfied ; and be inclined to think that the method 

 by which they are directed to collect the milky juice of poppies, 

 drop by drop as it were, by means of so small an implement as 

 a goose-quill, cannot possibly be the best and most effectual 

 mode of filling the chest with solid opium. But they may be 

 assured that neither the Turks, Persians, nor Hindoos, have any 

 more expeditious way of obtaining the succus proprius, or real 

 narcotic juice of the poppy. 



- If they patiently persevere, and proceed with care and dili- 

 gence, rapidity of execution will presently be acquired ; and 

 they will soon be convinced, by experience, of the correctness 

 of the wealthy accumulator's favourite maxim, th.at vunuj a little 

 make a inichle. 



Dyrhavi, Nov. 25th, 1819. G. S. 



Art. VII. On the Progress of Steam Navigation in 



Britain. 



To the Editor of the Quarterly Journal, edited at the Royal 



Institution. 

 Sir, 



In page 152 of this volume, there is inserted a notice of the 

 number of steam-boats now in operation on the Mississippi, and 

 its tributary streams, with an account of those which are build- 

 ing; presenting a singularly-interesting view of the immense 

 advantages which will be derived by that rapidly-advancing 

 country, from the introduction of this improved means of com- 

 munication, peopled as it is with the descendants of English- 

 men, and inheriting from their descent, all the active energy of 

 character which distinguishes the parent stock. Interesting, how- 

 ever, as this statement must be to all in a philanthropic point of 

 view, yet an account of the progress of the same system in our 

 own country must be far more so, as even to us the practical 

 adoption of this our native invention, holds out the most im- 

 portant results, and which are daily developing themselves with 

 increased energy. 



