Outlines of the Geography of Plants: With Particular Enquiries Concerning the Native Country, the Culture, And the Uses of the Principal Cultivated Plants On Which the Prosperity of Nations is Based
Outlines of the Geography of Plants: With Particular Enquiries Concerning the Native Country, the Culture, And the Uses of the Principal Cultivated Plants On Which the Prosperity of Nations is Based
F J F Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen
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of opium have been brought to China, which have cost the sum of 115,672,339 piastres. The quantity of opium which is consumed by the Ma- lays of the Indian Archipelago, in Cochin China, and Siam, as well as in India and Persia, is so immense that if we could obtain an exact statement of it, we should find the consumption of this article, so injurious to the health, quite incredible. Bumes has observed,* that in some countries it is even given to the horses to incite them to greater exertions. A... Cutchee horseman, says Burnes, shares very' honourably his store of opium with his horse, which then makes an incredible stretch, al- though wearied out before. • * NamÜTe of a Visit to the Court of Sinda, p. 230. THE TOBACCO. 361 4. The Tobacco (Nicotiance spec. var.). The aborigines of Hayti smoked the American to- bacco when the Spaniards discovered the island ; and towards the end of the 16th, or in the beginning of the 1 7th centnry, this custom passed over to the nations of JSurope. It has long been the opinion that the use of tobacco, as well as its culture, was peculiar to the people of America, but this is now proved to be incorrect by our present more eslEtct acquaintance with China and India.
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