[318] Morewood, p. 480. [319] Morewood, p. 481. [320] Rev. Dawson Burns’ paper before Statistical Society, p. 17. [321] Morewood, p. 481. [322] Carnegie, _loc. cit._, p. 263. [323] We shall find precisely the same state of things to exist in certain parts of America. [324] See the evidence on the “Gothenburg System” in the Report of the Lords’ Committee. [325] A good deal of information concerning the sale of brandy (Bränvin) in Sweden may be gleaned from the Acts of June 26, 1871 (Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner), and from those of 18th September 1874 and 16th May 1877, for which the author is indebted to Mr. Oscar Dickson of Gothenburg. [326] The author is indebted for these particulars to Mr. S. P. Wilding (son of a former American Vice-Consul at Liverpool), who has resided many years on the River Plate. [327] _Macropiper methysticum_: Miquel. See Lindley’s Medical and Economic Botany, p. 133. Bradbury & Evans. [328] P. 250; also Lindley’s Medical Botany, _loc. cit._ [329] P. 325, and Addenda. This table also appears in the first edition (1824), p. 177. [330] America, Historical, Statistical and Descriptive, by J. S. Buckingham, vol. ii. p. 304. Fisher. [331] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 417. [332] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 36. [333] Sketches on the Prairies, by Captain A. H. Markham, R.N., in “Good Words,” May 1878. [334] Liquor Laws of the United States, p. 21. National Temperance Society and Publication House. New York. [335] Liquor Laws of the United States, p. 43. [336] New York Herald, 18th April 1878. [337] New York Herald, 16th April 1878. [338] The San Francisco weekly “Alta California.” The author has not named any other papers. He has studied whole files of them, in some cases without even finding drunkenness mentioned, and the reader who desires to consider the question carefully can easily do the same. [339] “Prohibitory Liquor Legislation in the United States,” by Justin M’Carthy, “Fortnightly Review,” August 1871, p. 166. Although a writer on America is here quoted, the author has not trusted to printed testimony in any of these observations upon the drinking habits of the United States. He has verified them from the experience of numerous friends and acquaintances who have travelled and resided in the States, Englishmen, Germans, and Americans themselves. [340] By some it is affirmed that the middle classes of the United States consume more _spirits_ than the same class in England. [341] The Americans at Home, vol. ii. p. 306. By D. Macrae. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas. [342] The Americans at Home, vol. ii. p. 305. [343] The Americans at Home, p. 307. [344] Liquor Laws of the United States, p. 15. [345] Liquor Laws of the United States, p. 20. [346] Ibid. [347] Ibid., p. 22.