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them drowfy, flupid, and intoxicated, * and caufes bad can- 

 iequences, which I will enumerate hereafter. In * Taheitee this 

 root is fcarce and little ufed ; in Hiiaheine and the other Society- 

 illes they have great plantations of it ; in the Friendly-ifles it is 

 ftill more liked and cultivated, and every where is prefented as a 

 fignof friendfhip. However upon the whole, but few perfons ufe 



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it j it cannot therefore influence the health, of the nation at laro;e. 



The frequent ufe of moderate cxercife, in walking from one 

 place to another i^ their fliady cool groves, in felling trees, and 

 llowly excavating, rafping, and piercing their embarkations, or 

 making other utenfils, together with the gentle exercife of leifurely 



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* It IS the general charafter of all uncivilized nations to be addiftcd to drunkennefs and 



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iiiebnation caufed by various vegetables. The anticnt Scythian's procured intoxication by 

 imbibing the fumes of hemp-feed thrown on hot iloncs. Herodot, lib. iv. 69^ 70, *jt% 

 Maximus Tyritts Oraf, xiii. § 6. All the tribes of the Celtic and Teutonic nations brewed 

 beer, ale, and mead ; and fo did fomc nations bordering upon the former, though greatly 

 different from them, .Pelkutier Hift. des Celies^ lib. ii. ch, 18. Tacitus de nwrib. Germ* 



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23. King Alfredo's Orojtus in Jnglo-Saxon^ p. 26, 27. The Tchuktchl and 

 Yukaghiri on the North-Eaft extremity of Alia, infufe mulhrooms, affording an inebriating 

 liquor. .All the Mungalic nations, and among others, "the Khalmyks fennent marcs-milk 



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till it becomes inebriating, or diftill a kind of fpirltuous liquor from it, which they call 

 Kumy/s. The Mohammedans ufe opium and fmoak tobacco, which lafl: cuilom among the 

 Khalmyks is pradifed by women and children. The African Negroes are fond of brandy 

 to excefs, Romer's Befcnption of the Coaji of Guinea i and the fume is obfcrved of the 



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Hottentots by Kolbc Nor is any one ignorant how fond the American Savages, both in the 

 North and in the South, are become of brandy, La Hontan^ book xi. 



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