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34 poes a pot of ground in India; but the Chinee, from its detructive qualities, forbid, under the Penalty of death, the cultivation of it, and demolih any houe, in which it is expoed for ale.

It is ued by the people of every clas, among the Hindoos and Mahometans: the lower order take it, when they enter on any arduous enterprie, to render them inenible of the danger; and the gentry, who are fond of every thing that tends to a gratification of the paions, conider it as a great luxury. It's effects, however, arevarious, according to the manner of preparing it. Opium in it's original tate, is the produce of a pecies of poppy, the root