The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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the effects of an accident, in I865, at the age of 83, had
been an abstainer fPor sixty-two years.
Mr. yames Silk Buckingham, the Eastern traveller and
distinguished advocate of temperance, bore frequent testimony to the advantages of abstinence, and to his observation of these advantages in the. people of the various
countries through which he passed where total abstinence
was practised. He describes himself as having been particularly struck with the sight of a band of Himalaya
mountaineers, who "were indeed perfect Samsons," both
as regards their feats of strength and abstinence from
intoxicating drinks.
Mr. Kefifiel says, in his "Voyage up the Tigris (1820) ":
"We tried to content ourselves with water-an experiment which we found to answer so well that, while actually on the road, we entirely abstained from drinking
anything else. To this circumstance we alone attribute
our health during our long and fatiguing journey."
Mr. 7ames Backhouse said: "I have travelled over hot
sands, so hot that the very dogs howled with pain on
treading upon it, the thermometer often at I i6 degrees,
and the water so bad that we had to conceal the taste
with coffee; and I believe no journey of the same length
was ever made with so little risk or danger. There is no
single act of my life to which I look back with greater
satisfaction than to the adoption of total abstinence."
Sir.7ohn Ross, the Arctic explorer, in an account of his
career, states: "I was twenty years older [at the time
.of his four-years' voyage, April, I829, to October, I833]
than any of the officers or crew, and thirty years older
than all excepting three, yet I could stand the cold and
fatigue better than any of them, who all made use of
tobacco and spirits."
The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, in his evidence before the Parliamentary Committee of I834 on drunkenness, said: ",My
principal experience has been' in severely cold climates,
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