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advantages of temperance ; and confirms a cu- 
rious obfervation of m. muret, who examined 1 
the regifter of mortality in one town, to mark 
thofe, whofe deaths might be imputed to excefs. 
The number of thefe he found fo great, as led him 
to believe, that drunkennefs is more deftru&ive to 
mankind, than pleurifies, fevers, or the. moll ma~- 
lignant diftempers.. 
King’s Street, 
A«g. (£sh, 1773,. 
VI. Oi~ 
