NARCOTICS. 



and awoke much refreshed. Delighted- with the remedy, she repeated 

 the doses so often, that the monarch's poison was all drank. He soon 

 discovered this, and forced the lady to confess what she had done. A 

 quantity of wine was made ; and Jamshid and" all his court drank of the 

 new beverage which, from the circumstance that led to its discovery, is to 

 this day known in Persia by the name of Zeher-i-Koosh, or the delightful 

 poison." The Greeks attributed the discovery of wine to Dionysos, and 

 Bochart would identify him with the founder of Babylon. The Greeks 

 and Romans recognised about one hundred kinds of wine. The vineyards 

 of France, Spain, Hungary, Sicily, Naples, the Cape of Good Hope, Por- 

 tugal, Australia, and the Canaries, now produce more than a thousand 

 varieties, the poorest of which probably as far excels the Falernian of 

 Horace, as it is excelled by the best wines of the Cote d'Or, Zemplin, and 

 the Haut Rhin. It is impossible in this catalogue to enumerate the 

 ancient and modern wines ; but the following list, of plants, other than the 

 Vine, yielding vinous liquors, or ardent sjwrits, in various parts of the world, 

 is inserted to prove how in every clime, and from every order of plants, 

 nature offers alcoholic stimulants *' to make glad the heart of man." 



N. O. 4. MENISPERMACEJS. Coculus Cebatha, used in Arabia in 

 the preparation of Kumr-ool-majnoon. Cissampelos obtecta, used 

 in Gurhwal. 



N. O. 33. TILIACE.E. Aristotelia Maqui, in Chili- Grewia asiatica, 

 in India (v. supra). Grewia flava, "Brandy Bush" of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



N. O. 40. GUTTIFER.E. Mammea americana, in South America 

 to prepare Eau de Creole. 



N. 0. 70. RHAMNACE^E. Zizyphus Lotus, about Tripoli. Z. 

 orthacanthuSy in Gambia. 



N. O. 71. ANACARDIACE.E. Anacandwm occidentale (v. infra), 

 and Manyifera indica, in India. 



N. O. 74. LEGUMINOS^E. Acacia leucophlaa, and A. ferruginea, 

 in India. Prosopis Alyaroba, in South America in the prepara- 

 tion of Chica. 



N. O. 76. ROSACEJE. Pyrus Mains, and P. cotnmunis in England, 

 the first for Cider, and the second for Perry. Spircea kamtscha- 

 tica, used in Kamtschatka. 



N. O. 85. MYRTACE^. Eucalyptus gunnii of Tasmania affords 

 an abundant sap, which ferments into a beer-like liquor. 



N. O. 103. GROSSULARIACE^E. Ribes Grossularia, used in Europe 

 under the name of Champagne. 



N. O. 114. CAFRiFOLiACEyE. Sambucus niffer, yields Elderberry 

 "Wine of Europe. 



N. O. 135. SABOTAGED. Bassia latifolia, yields the Mawhra of 

 India. (P. infra). 



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