of the drug in the 'Pillars of Hercules.' I was intimately acquainted with the author, Mr. David Urquhart, and know him to have made repeated efforts to reproduce in England the effects experienced in the East with hachish; but in vain. He complained that, like the caravan tea of Russia, transport, water-carriage (with no matter what degree of circumspection, what amount of casing and covering) were fatal to the magic influence hachish exercises alike on Westerns and Orientals, when properly taken and of the proper kind. He was assisted in his experiments by the late Major Rolland, who had long Eastern experiences himself, and by several others on different occasions; but the result was invariably the same only a kind of abortive opium exaltation being attained—nothing in the least resembling the fantastic De Quincey condition described by your correspondent."
Certainly, as I have already said, there is a difficulty in obtaining potent hachish in England, but that difficulty is not now insuperable, whatever it may have been in
