When tea-drinking was first introduced into Scotland and took the place of ale and claret it was enerigetically denounced. Even as late fas in 1702 the Scots minister Currie uttered a solemn and prophetic warning. "The introduction of these baneful articles of tea and whisky will soon produce the corruption of morals and debility of constitution which are so severely felt in every parish, and will soon materially impair the real strength and popula ion of Scotland." Lord President Forbes, his brother "bumper" John, and other famous supporters of jelaret were vigor in their denunei 1s. They were the "most plenti ful drinkers in the North," and in the Culloden Papers Forbes utters his detestation of the "vile drag." Mackintosh of Borlum, another of the passing generation of robust topers, makes the following lament in 1729:—"When I came to my friend's house of a morning I used be asked if I had my morning draught yet. Iam now asked if I have had my tea." The new drink I to the native products /Ale hai been at one time brewed in
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