Excerpt from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, Vol. 2 We were now then at Dumfries. During and after dinner, I made attacks upon the whiskey in every possible direction: with and without aqueous dilu tion - with and without saccharine infusion: but to no purpose. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, whiskey, still thou art a bitter draught. With or without sugar, or water - hot or cold - still thou art brimstone and fire to-day, and fire and brimstone to-morrow. As it was my first, so it was my last, experiment upon this generally seductive liquor with the Scotch. In the everlasting toddgj-potations at Glasgow, I could never be brought to hear my part in brandishing a ladle or emptying a rummer. Even its infusion into the plmc/z-bowl there, though that how] came fresh and foaming from the cunning hand of the good Joseph Hunter, Esq. - even then, Substitute slavery for whiskey, and the quotation is from Sterne. They place very small bottles or decanters of this liquor by the side of a glass, before you; and I believe sixpence will supply you with a portion sufficient to make your head ache for a week. It is poetically called mountain new! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.