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Drinking in Hot Climes

nellibell49 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:11:48 +0000

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The Sydney Gazette Wednesday 13 December 1826

Drunkenness.-There is scarcely any hope of a
drunkard reforming in a hot climate : It is reported
in Halts Columbia, that, of 3000 Europeans who
went to Columbia a few years since, not more than
300 survive ; and three parts out of five of this
mortality may be attributed to drinking.

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ETERNITY WILL BE TOO LATE

nellibell49 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:40:08 +0000

The Sydney Gazette. Thursday 4 March 1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182693

A man that procured his livelihood by bird catching, named (we believe) Edward Maidman, for the last fortnight or three weeks gave himself up to intense drinking. One day last week he was in a Pitt-street public-house, apparently well in health, when suddenly he leaped towards the ceiling, fell prostrate, and instantly expired ! A Coroner’s Inquest returned a verdict of-Death by the visitation of God.’ Reader ! if thou art a drunkard, refrain in time; for eternity will be too late !

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The Sydney Gazette Wednesday 26 July 1826

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2186252

Six persons, amongst whom was a female of notorious character as a drunkard, were severally fined 5s. each to the poor, for being found in a state of intoxication in the streets at late hours.

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OPIUM AGAIN

nellibell49 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:19:55 +0000

SITES TO SEE- TRULY PLANTING THE DREAMING DEEP.

Papaveraceae, Papaver somniferum L.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html

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Star (London, England), Monday, June 15, 1789

THE price of OPIUM has risen from 350 to 380 dollars per chest.

Calcutta News.

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St. James's Chronicle">St. James’s Chronicle">ST JAMES CHRONICLE or the British Evening Post (London, England), Thursday, July 2, 1789; Issue 4400.

Major Scott wrote from Calcutta on the necessity of Britain maintaining a monopoly on OPIUM. He saw that as the only method of preventing adulteration.

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IN 1823, SYDNEY. at MR T M WALKER’S STORE, amongst the goods which had not ‘gone off ‘ at Auction were the following.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2181835

The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 1 May 1823,

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IN JULY 1825, CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER WAS listed in the SYDNEY GAZETTE amongst BOOKS TO BE SOLD – rare and valuable – at AUCTION by Mr Robert Cooper in George-Street.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2184230

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Confessions of an English opium-eater, and kindred papers (1876) De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

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The Selector. VAGARIES OF IMAGINATION.

The Sydney Gazette Wednesday 20 December 1826

VAGARIES OF IMAGINATION. A STRANGE TALE OF A YOUNG MAN CONVINCED OF HIS IMPENDING DEATH and the use of OPIUM in carrying him past the hour in which he believed he would perish.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187139

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2189101

The Sydney Gazette and… Friday 5 October 1827

A quantity of the opium poppy is growing luxuriantly in the Government Garden. As the great value of this article in China has been ascertained, we recommend it to the attention of the agriculturists.

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OPIUM AND THE OPIUM APPETITE FROM INTERNET ARCHIVE.

1971.

http://www.archive.org/stream/opiumandopiumap00alongoog

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