PHILOSOPHICAL AND STATISTICAL HISTORY

OF THE

INVENTIONS AND CUSTOMS

OF

ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS

IN THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF

INEBRIATING LIQUORS;

WITH THE

Present Practice of Distillation in all its varieties:

TOGETHER WITH AN EXTENSIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THE

CONSUMPTION AND EFFECTS OF OPIUM,

AND OTHER STIMULANTS USED IN THE EAST, AS SUBSTITUTES
FOR WINE AND SPIRITS.

BY

SAMUEL MOREWOOD, ESQ.

COLLECTOR OF EXCISE.

DUBLIN:

WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND COMPANY, AND WILLIAM CARSON.

LONGMAN, ORME, BROwn, green, AND LONGMANS, LONDon.

FRASER AND COMPANY, Edinburgh.

1838.