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 cold; then put it into narrow-bottomed drinking-glasses, in which let it stand a whole day; when you wish to turn it out, put your glasses into warm water for a minute, and it will turn out like a sugar loaf.

Take a quart of cream, a pint of white wine, and a little juice of lemon; sweeten it well, lay in a sprig of rosemary, grate some chocolate, and mix all together; stir it all over fire till it is thick, and pour it into your cups.

Take the whites of seven eggs, and seven spoonfuls of raspberry mash; which put into an earthen pan, and beat it well with a spoon, till it comes to a cream, or you think it looks white enough, then fill your glasses; this quantity will make about a dozen.

Take a quart of very ripe raspberries, or raspberry jam, rub them through a hair sieve to take out the seeds, mix it with a quart of good cream, sweeten it to your taste with fine powder sugar, and put in a spoonful of rose water; put it into a deep pan, and with a chocolate mill raise a froth; as the froth rises take it off, and put it on a sieve to drain; if you have not a chocolate mill, put it into a broad pan, and beat it with a whisk till the froth rises; as it rises take it off, and lay it on a sieve as before; when you have got as much froth as you want, put what cream remains into a deep china dish or bowl, and with a spoon put your


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Roast one ounce of coffee, put it hot into a pint and an half of boiling cream; boil these together a little; take it off, put in two dried gizzards; cover this close, let it stand one hour, sweeten with double refined sugar; pass it two or three times through a sieve with a wooden spoon; put it into a dish with a tin on the top, set the dish on a gentle stove, put fire on the tin; when it has taken set it by; serve it cold. Tea cream is made in the same manner.

Boil a quantity of pearl-barely in milk and water till it is tender; then strain the liquor from it; put your barley into a quart of cream, and let it boil a little; then take the whites of five eggs, and the yolks of one, beaten with a spoonful of fine flour, and two spoonfuls of orange flower water; take the cream off the fire, mix in the eggs by degrees, and set it over the fire again to thicken; sweeten it to your taste, pour it into basons, and, when cold, serve it up.

Take two quarts of gooseberries, put them into a saucepan, just cover them with water, scald them till they are tender, then rub them through a sieve with a spoon to a quart of pulp; have six eggs well beaten, make your pulp hot, and put in one ounce of fresh butter; sweeten it to your taste,

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 taste, stir in your eggs, put it over a gentle fire till they are thick, but you must take care they do not boil; then stir in a gill of the juice of spinach, and when it is almost cold, stir in a spoonful of orange flower water or sack; pour it into basons, and when cold serve it up.

Boil a quart of new milk with a stick of cinnamon, a little lemon-peel, and two or three laurel leaves; sweeten it to your taste; strain it through a sieve into another stew-pan, beat up the yolks of eight eggs, and the whites of two, with a little milk, very fine; stir the eggs into the milk, put it over a slow fire, and stir it one way till it is thick; pour it into a bowl, put two spoonfuls of rose or orange flower water into it, and stir it till it is cold; then put it into glasses or cups.

Take a quart of cream, put it into a broad pan, with half a pint of sack, half a pound of fine powder sugar; beat up the whites of four eggs to a high froth, and put in with some lemon peel cut thin; you may perfume it, if you please, with a little musk or ambergris tied in a bag, and steeped in the cream; whip it up well with a whisk, and as the froth rises, put it into cups, glasses, or small basons; or you may put it over fruit tarts.

Take four ounces of hartshorn shavings, and boil it in three pints of water till it is reduced to half a pint, and run it through a jelly-bag; put to


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Rh to it a pint of cream and four ounces of sugar, and just boil it up; put it into cups or glasses, and let it stand till it is cold; dip your cups or glasses in scalding water, and turn them out into your dish; stick sliced almonds on them; it is generally eaten with white wine and sugar.

Season a quart of very thick cream with fine sugar and orange flower water; boil it, and beat the whites of twenty eggs with a little cold cream, strain it, and when the cream is upon the boil, pour in the eggs, stirring it well till it comes to a thick curd; then take it up, and strain it again through a hair sieve; beat it well with a spoon till it is cold, then put it into a dish.

Take as much cream as you think you will want, boil it with a little cinnamon and lemon peel; make it very sweet with sugar, strain it off, and let it gold; put your quinces into boiling water, boil them quick, uncovered, till they are tender; pare and beat them very fine, rub them through a sieve, then put them into a mortar, and mix the cream well with them; put it into small basons or glasses, and serve it up.

Take a large deep dish, strew the bottom with fine sugar beat to powder; fill it with strawberries; take some sprigs of rosemary, stick a large one in the middle, and several round about, to resemble a tree; then take a quart of the thickest cream you can get, and the whites of eight or ten


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Boil six laurel leaves in a quart of thick cream; take them out, beat the yolks of five eggs with a little cold cream, and sugar to your taste; pour it into the cream, set it over the fire again and keep it stirring, but do not let it boil; pour it into china dishes, and when cold it is fit for use.

Bruise currants that are thorough ripe in boiled cream, put in beaten cinnamon, and sweeten it to your taste; then strain it through a fine sieve, and serve it up. You may do raspberries or strawberries the same way. It is best to sweeten the fruit before you put it to the cream, which should be almost cold before the fruit is put to it, else it is liable to curdle.

Take half a pound of the pulp of any preserved fruit, put it in a large pan, put to it the whites of two or three eggs beat together well for an hour, take it off with a spoon and lay it heaped on the dish or glass salver, with other creams, or put it in the middle bason. Raspberries will not do this way.

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Take a pint of cream, boil it with sugar and a little lemon peel shred fine; beat the yolks of six and the whites of four eggs separately; when your cream is cooled, put in the eggs, with a spoonful of orange flower water, and a spoonful of fine flour; set it over the fire, keep stirring it till it is thick, then put it into a dish; when it is cold, sift a quarter of a pound of sugar over it, hold a hot shovel over it, till it is very brown, and looks like a glass plate put over your cream.

Pare two lemons, squeeze to them the juice of one large, or two small ones, let it stand some time, then strain the juice to a pint of cream; add the yolks of four eggs beaten and strained; sweeten it, stir it over the fire till thick, and, if agreeable, add a little brandy.

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 with two ounces of sugar, and two spoonfuls orange flower water; stir it gently three or four minutes, pour it into a dish, and melted butter over it; send it in hot.

Take new milk, and put it in the bason you intend to go to table; let it stand till it turns to curds, which may be one or two days after; eat it with cream and sugar, and it is very fine: if the milk is good it will be two days of turning.

Take new milk and sweeten it, grate in nutmeg and the yellow rind of a lemon; put in runnet enough to turn it to curds, which, if covered, will be in about two hours; then, if there is a quart, pour over it half a pint of thick cream, and send it to table.

To a quarter of a pound of blanched almonds, well beat, put some new milk and rose water, take a quart of thick cream, and the yolks of twelve eggs beat well with a little of the cream; put the rest of the cream to them, then a quarter of a pint of new milk to the almonds, and strain it into the cream so often that there is no strength left; strain all together into a skillet, set it over a charcoal fire, and stir it till it comes to a tender curd; put it into a strainer, and hang it up till all the whey is run out; then take six ounces of fine sugar, well sifted, and a little rose water, and beat all into butter with a spoon.

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Take the juice of twelve oranges, the yolks of eighteen eggs, double refined sugar sufficient to sweeten it to your taste, but not very sweet; set it over a slow fire, stirring it all one way till it grows thick; put in as much butter as the size of a walnut, and a little ambergris, keep it smooth with stirring, when it is thick put it into little china dishes, being dipt in water first, that it may turn out the easier.

Take the yolks of two hard eggs, beat them in a marble mortar with a large spoonful of orange flower water, and two spoonfuls of fine sugar beat to powder; beat all to a fine paste, add a like quantity of fresh butter just taken out of the churn, and force it through a fine strainer full of little holes into a plate.

Take three pints of the thickest and sweetest cream you can get, a pint of rhenish, half a pint of sack, three lemons, near a pound of double refined sugar, beat and sift your sugar, and put it to the cream; grate off the yellow rind of three lemons, put that in, and squeeze the juice of three


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 three lemons into your wine; put that to the cream, beat all together with a whisk just half an hour, then take it up all together with a spoon, and fill your glasses.

Take a quart of the thickest cream you can get, make it very sweet with double refined sugar, finely beat; grate in the yellow rind of two large lemons; first fill your glasses one third full of sack, or any white wine sweetened, a little juice of orange just to give it a pleasant tartness, then, with a whisk beat it up well to a froth, take the froth, and with a spoon put it in your glasses as high as you can fill them, keep it whisking up as long as it will froth, and put it in the glasses; if your cream is thin, beat up the yolk of an egg.

Take a pint of sack and a pint of red port, the juice of a large lemon and a Seville orange; grate in the yellow rind of one of the lemons, and a little nutmeg; make it pretty sweet with fine sugar; take two quarts of new milk from the cow, make it blood-warm, put it in as if milked from the cow; when it has stood five minutes, have ready a pint of good warm cream, and pour that all over in the same manner; it will be best to eat directly, but very good two or three hours after.

Put a bottle of either red or white wine, ale or cyder,


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Rh cyder, into a china bowl, sweeten it with sugar, and grate in some nutmeg; then, hold it under the cow, and milk into it till it has a fine froth at the top; strew over it a handful of currants, clean washed and picked, and plumped before the fire. You may make this syllabub at home by having a new milk made as warm as from the cow, and pouring it out of a tea pot, or any other vessel with a spout, holding your hand very high.

Take a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar in one piece, and rub it on the rind of two lemons till you have got all the essence out of them, then put the sugar into a pint of cream and a gill of mountain wine, squeeze in the juice of both the lemons, and let it stand for two hours; then whip it with a whisk, or mill it with a chocolate mill, and as the froth rises take it off, and put it on a sieve to drain; let it stand all night, then put the clear into the glasses, and with a spoon put on the froth as high as you can.

Put an ounce of picked isinglass to a pint of water; put to it a bit of cinnamon, and boil it til the isinglass is melted; put to it three quarters of a pint of cream, two ounces of sweet almonds, and six bitter ones, blanched and beaten, and a bit of lemon peel; sweeten it, stir it over the fire, and let it boil; strain it, stir it till it is cool, squeeze in the juice of a lemon, and put it into what moulds you please; turn it out, garnish with currant jelly and jam, or marmalade, quinces


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 quinces, &c. If you choose to have your blanc-manage of a green colour, put in as much juice of spinach as will be necessary for that purpose, and a spoonful of brandy; but it should not then retain the name of blanc-mange, (white food,) but verde-mange, (green food): if you would have it yellow, dissolve a little saffron in it; you should then call it jaune-mange: or you may make it red, by putting a bit of cochineal into a little brandy, let it stand half an hour, and strain it through a bit of cloth; it is then intitled to the appellation of rouge-mange. Always wet the mould before you put in the blanc-mange. It may be ornamented, when turned out, by sticking about it blanched almonds sliced, or citron, according to fancy.

Take a quart of strong calf's foot jelly, skim off the fat, and strain it, beat the whites of four eggs, put it into a jelly-bag, and run it through several times till it is clear; beat one ounce of sweet almonds, and one of bitter, to a paste, with a spoonful of rose water squeezed through a cloth; mix it with the jelly, and three spoonfuls of very good cream; set it over the fire again, and keep stirring it till it is almost boiling; pour it into a bowl, and stir very often till it is almost cold; then wet your moulds and fill them.

Fill your orange with blanc-mange; and, when cold, stick in it long slips of citron, like leaves; pour blanc-mange in the dish; when cold, set the


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 Latin language which are said to be written inaccurately, having been composed by excellent men, only not of sufficient learning; for, indeed, it is possible that a man may think well, and yet not be able to express his thoughts elegantly; but for any one to publish thoughts which he can neither arrange skilfully nor illustrate so as to entertain his reader, is an unpardonable abuse of letters and retirement: they, therefore, read their books to one another, and no one ever takes them up but those who wish to have the same license for careless writing allowed to themselves. Wherefore, if oratory has acquired any reputation from my industry, I shall take the more pains to open the fountains of philosophy, from which all my eloquence has taken its rise.

IV. But, as Aristotle, a man of the greatest genius, and of the most various knowledge, being excited by the glory of the rhetorician Isocrates, commenced teaching young men to speak, and joined philosophy with eloquence: so it is my design not to lay aside my former study of oratory, and yet to employ myself at the same time in this greater and more fruitful art; for I have always thought that to be able to speak copiously and elegantly on the most important questions was the most perfect philosophy. And I have so diligently applied myself to this pursuit, that I have already ventured to have a school like the Greeks. And lately when you left us, having many of my friends about me, I attempted at my Tusculan villa what I could do in that way; for as I formerly used to practise declaiming, which nobody continued longer than myself, so this is now to be the declamation of my old age. I desired any one to propose a question which he wished to have discussed, and then I argued that point either sitting or walking; and so I have compiled the scholæ, as the Greeks call them, of five days, in as many books. We proceeded in this manner: when he who had proposed the subject for discussion had said what he thought proper, I


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Boil three ounces of hartshorn in two quarts of spring water; let it simmer over the fire six or seven hours, till half the water is consumed; or else put it in a jug, and set it in the oven with household bread; strain it through a sieve, and beat half a pound of almonds very fine, with a quantity of orange flower water; when they are beat, mix a little of your jelly with it, and some fine sugar; strain it with the rest of the jelly, stirring it till it is a little more than blood-warm; then pour it into your basons or cups, and when you use them stick in almonds cut small.

Put six ounces of isinglass into a quart of new milk, sweeten it, set it over the fire, and keep it stirring one way all the time, till it is jellied; pour it into your basons, and when cold turn it out; you may put in orange flower water if you chuse.

Take oatmeal, steep it in pure clean water till it turns sour; stir it every day, strain it, and put it in a kettle over the fire; keep stirring it with a stick one way all the time, till it is as thick as hasty-pudding; then pour it into your basons, and


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 and when cold turn it out; you may eat it with milk, ale, or wine, sweetened.

Put three large handfuls of oatmeal ground small into two quarts of fair water, let it steep a day and night, then pour off the clear water, and put the same quantity of fresh water to it; strain it through a fine hair sieve, and boil it till it is as thick as hasty-pudding; stir it all the while that it may be very smooth; when you first strain it, before you set it on the fire, put in one spoonful of sugar, and two of good orange flower water; when it is boiled enough, pour it into shallow for use.

Put half a pound of hartshorn shavings into a saucepan with three pints of water, boil it gently till reduced to a pint, strain it into a bason, and set it by to cool; boil a pint of thick cream, and let it get cold; put the jelly on, and make it blood-warm; put the cream to it, with a gill of white wine, two spoonfuls of orange flower water, sweeten it with fine sugar, and beat it till well mixed; dip your moulds or cups in cold water, then put in the flummery; when it is cold, turn it out into a dish, and mix a little cream, white wine, and sugar together, and pour it into the dish; cut a few blanched almonds in long slips, and stick in the top of the flummery.

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Put a little isinglass to a quart of stiff hartshorn jelly; add to it a pint of cream, a little brandy, and some lemon juice and sugar; boil this till it is thick, then strain it; you may, if you please, add three ounces of almonds, blanched and beaten; about ten bitter ones.

Beat and open two ounces of isinglass, put it into a bowl, and over it a pint of boiling water; cover it up till it is almost cold; add a pint of white wine, the rind of one, and the juice of two lemons, the yolks of eight eggs, well beat, and sweetened to your taste; then put it into a tossing-pan, and continue stirring it; when it boils, strain it; and, when almost cold, put it into moulds or cups.

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 it into three parts; make one part of a pretty thick colour, with a little cochineal bruised fine, and steeped in French brandy; scrape one ounce of chocolate very fine, dissolve it in a little strong coffee, and mix it with another part of your flummery to make it a light stone colour; the last part must be white; then wet your temple mould, and fix it in a pot to stand even; fill the top of the temple with red flummery, for the steps, and the four points with white; then fill it up with chocolate flummery; let it stand till the next day, loosen very gently, but do not dip your mould in warm water, as it will take off the gloss, and spoil the colour; when you turn it out, stick a small sprig, or flower stalk, down from the top of every point, which will strengthen them, and make them look pretty, lay round it rock candy sweetmeats. It is proper for a corner dish for a large table.

Take a quart of cream, and half an ounce of isinglass beat fine, and stir them together; let it boil softly over a slow fire a quartet of an hour, stirring it all the time; then take it off the fire, sweeten it to your palate, and put to it a spoonful of rose and orange flower water; strain it, pour it into glasses or basons, and when cold turn it out and lay round it baked pears. ORNAMENTS


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Clip off the white from the red bud, and dry it in the sun; to one ounce of which, finely powdered, take one pound of loaf sugar; wet the sugar in rose water, (but if in season, the juice of roses) boil it to a candy height, put in the powder of roses, and the juice of a lemon; mince all well together, put it on a pie plate, and cut in into lozenges, or make it into any figures you please, as, men, women, or birds; and if you want ornaments in your dessert, you may glid or colour them, as in the wormwood cakes.

Take a very large deep china dish, first make some calves-foot jelly with which fill the dish about half the depth; when it begins to jelly, have ready some Naples biscuits, macaroons, and the little cakes called matrimony; break an equal quantity of these in pieces, and stick them in the jelly before it be stiff, all over very thick; pour over that a quart of thick sweet cream then lay all round, currant jelly, raspberry jam, and some calves-foot jelly, all cut in little pieces, with which garnish your dish thick all round, intermixing them, and lay on them macaroons and the little cakes, being first dipped in sack; then take two quarts of the thickest cream you can get, sweeten it with double refined sugar, grated into it the rind of three large lemons, and beat


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Take four calves feet, set them on the fire in a saucepan, or pot, that will hold two gallons of water; and let them boil till they come to pieces, or two parts wasted, or till the jelly, by taking little out, be as stiff as glue; strain it through a sieve, when cold take off the fat at top; then take two quarts of this jelly, one quart of mountain wine, the juice of six large lemons, half a pound of double refined sugar, and the whites of six eggs, beat to a froth; mix all together, let it boil, and run it through a jelly-bag into a bowl, on a good quantity of lemon peel; throw what quantity you want into your dish, and pour the rest into another dish, so that you may cut it out when cold to garnish your trifle with.

Take a quart of very thick cream, sweeten it with fine sugar, grate in the peel of two lemons, and half a pint of sweet white wine; whisk it well, till you have raised all the froth you can, pour a pint or quart of thick cream into a china dish, according to its depth; take two French rolls, slice them thin, and lay them over the cream as light as you can; then a layer of fine calves-foot or hartshorn jelly; roll them over the currant jelly, then put the French rolls, and whip up your cream, lay it on as high as you can, and what remains pour into the bottom of the


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Rh the dish; garnish the rim of your dish with different sorts of sweetmeats, jellies, and ratafia cakes; this looks very ornamental in the middle of the table.

Blanch two pounds of almonds, beat them well in a mortar, with a little canary and orange flower water, to keep them from oiling; make them into stiff paste, and beat in the yolks of twelve eggs, leave out five of the whites, put to it a pint of cream, sweetened with sugar; put in half a pound of sweet butter melted, set it on a furnace or slow fire, and keep it constantly stirring till it is stiff enough to be made into the form of an hedge-hog; put it int a dish; add a pint of cream, and the yolks of four eggs beat up; sweeten with sugar to your palate; stir them together over a slow fire till it is quite hot; then pour it round the hedge-hog in a dish, and let it stand till it is cold, and serve it up; or a rich calves-foot jelly made clear and good, poured into the dish, round the hedge-hog: when it is cold, it looks pretty, and makes a neat dish: or it looks handsome in the middle of a table for supper.

Bake or scald eight or nine large apples; when cold, pare them, and pulp them through a sieve; beat this up with fine sugar; put to it the whites of four or five eggs that have been beaten, with a little


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 a little rose water; mix it a little at a time, and beat it till it is light; heap it on a rich cold custard, or on jelly.

Take the whites of two eggs, and mix them up with two ounces of chocolate scraped; pile it on a thin custard or jelly.

Form a lump of paste into a rock three inches broad at the top, colour it, and set it in the middle of a deep china dish; set a cast figure on it, with a crown on its head, and a knot of rock candy at its feet; then make a roll of paste an inch thick, and stick it on the inner edge of the dish, two parts round; cut eight pieces of eringo roots, about three inches long, and fix them upright to the roll of paste on the edge; make gravel walks of shot comfits round the dish, and set small figures in them; roll out some paste, and cut it open like Chinese rails; bake it, and fix it one either side of the gravel walks with gum, and form an entrance where the Chinese rails are, with two pieces of eringo root for pillars.

First take care, at a proper time of the year, to save the stalks of the fruit with the stones to them; then get some neat tins made in the shape of the fruit you intend to make, leaving a hole at the top to put in the stone and stalk, so contrived as to open in the middle to take out the fruit; you must also have a frame of wood to fix them in: in making the tins care must be


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 The Sieur Otho Theodore Baron de Manteuffel, President of His Council, and His Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c.; and the Sieur Maximilian Frederick Charles Francis Count of Hatzfeldt Wildenburg-Schoenstein, His actual Privy Councillor, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, &c.

The Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—

I. From the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, there shall be peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, His Majesty the King of Sardinia, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, on the one part, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Bussias , on the other part; as well as between their heirs and successors, their respective dominions and subjects, in perpetuity.

II. Peace being happily re-established between their said Majesties, the territories conquered or occupied by their armies during the war shall be reciprocally evacuated.

Special arrangements shall regulate the mode of the evacuation, which shall be as prompt as possible. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias engages to restore to His Majesty the Sultan the town and citadel of Kars, as well as the other parts of the Ottoman territory of which the Russian troops are in possession. Their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of the French, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan, engage to restore to His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the towns and ports of Sebastopol,


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 * Ignaz Paderewski (1908)
 * Arthur Wing Pinero (1908?)

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 Balaklava, Kamiesch, Eupatoria, Kertch, Jenikale, Kinburn, as well as all other territories occupied hy the allied troops. V. Their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of the French, the Emperor of all the Russias, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan, grant a full and entire amnesty to those of their subjects who may have heen compromised by any participation whatsoever in the events of the war in favour of the cause of the enemy.

''It is expressly understood that such amnesty shall extend to the subjects of each of the belligerent parties who may have continued, during the war, to be employed in the service of one of the other belligerents. ''

VI. Prisoners of war shall be immediately given up on either side.

VII. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, His Majesty the King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Sardinia, declare the Sublime Porte admitted to participate in the advantages of the public law and system (concert) of Europe. Their Majesties engage, each on his part, to respect the independence and the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire; guarantee in comrnon the strict observance of that engagements ; and will, in consequence, consider any act tending to its violation as a question of general interest.

VIII. If there should arise between the Sublime Porte and one or more of the other signing Powers, any misunderstanding which might endanger the maintenance of their relations, the Sublime Porte, and each of such Powers, before having recourse to the use of force, shall afford the other Contracting Parties the opportunity of preventing such an extremity by means of their mediation.


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  IX. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, having, in his constant solicitude for the welfare of his subjects, issued a Firman which, while ameliorating their condition without distinction of religion or of race, records his generous intentions towards the Christian populations of his Empire, and wishing to give a further proof of his sentiments in that respect, has resolved to communicate to the Contracting Parties the said Firman emanating spontaneously from his sovereign will.

The Contracting Powers recognise the high value of this communication. It is clearly understood that it cannot, in any case, give to the said Powers the right to interfere, either collectively or separately, in the relations of His Majesty the Sultan with his subjects, nor in the internal administration of his Empire.

X. The Convention of the 13th of July, 1841, which maintains the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire relative to the closing of the Straits of the Bosphorus and of the Dardanelles, has been revised by common consent. The Act concluded for that purpose, and in conformity with that principle, between the High Contracting Parties, is and remains annexed to the present Treaty, and shall have the same force and validity as if it formed an integral part thereof.


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1535.] orders had luxuriated in corruption, Becket or Hildebrand would scarcely have done less or more than what had as yet been attempted by Henry.

But the time had now arrived when the results of the investigation were to be submitted to the nation. The Parliament—the same old Parliament of 1529, which had commenced the struggle with the bishops—was now meeting for its last session, to deal with this its greatest and concluding difficulty. It assembled on the 4th of February, and the preliminaries of the great question being not yet completed, the Houses were first occupied with simplifying justice and abolishing the obsolete privileges of the Northern palatinates. Other minor matters were also disposed of. Certain questionable people, who were taking advantage of the confusion of the times to 'withhold tythes,' were animadverted upon. The treason law was further extended to comprehen4 the forging of the King's sign-manual, signet, and privy seal, 'divers light and evil-disposed persons having of late had the courage to commit such offences.' The scale of fees at the courts of law was fixed by statute; and felons having protection of sanctuary were no longer to be permitted to leave the precincts, and return at their pleasure. When they went abroad, they were to wear badges, declaring who and what they were; and they were to be within bounds after sunset. In these and similar regulations the earlv weeks of the session were consumed. At


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332 length the visitors had finished their work, and the famous Black Book of the monasteries was laid on the table of the House of Commons.

This book, I have said, unhappily no longer exists. Persons however who read it have left on record emphatic descriptions of its contents; and the preamble of the Act of Parliament of which it formed the foundation, dwells upon its character with much distinctness. I cannot discuss the insoluble question whether the stories which it contained were true. History is ill occupied with discussing probabilities on à priori grounds, when the scale of likelihood is graduated by antecedent prejudice. It is enough that the report was drawn up by men who had the means of knowing the truth, and who were apparently under no temptation to misrepresent what they had seen; that the description coincides with the authentic letters of the visitors; and that the account was generally accepted as true by the English Parliament.

It appeared, then, on this authority, that two-thirds of the monks in England were living in habits which may not be described. The facts were related in great detail. The confessions of parties implicated were produced, signed by their own hands. The vows were not observed. The lands were wasted, sold, and mortgaged. The foundations were incomplete. The houses were falling to waste; within and without, the monastic


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1536.] was in ruins. In the smaller abbeys especially, where, from the limitation of numbers, the members were able to connive securely at each other's misdemeanours, they were saturated with profligacy, with simony, with drunkenness. The case against the monasteries was complete; and there is no occasion either to be surprised or peculiarly horrified at the discovery. The demoralization which was exposed was nothing less and nothing more than the condition into which men of average nature compelled to celibacy, and living as the exponents of a system which they disbelieved, were certain to fall.

There were exceptions. In the great monasteries, or in many of them, there was decency and honourable management; but when all the establishments, large and small, had been examined, a third only could claim to be exempted from the darkest schedule. This was the burden of the report which was submitted to the legislature. So long as the extent of the evil was unknown, it could be tolerated; when it had been exposed to the world, honour and justice alike required a stronger remedy than an archiepiscopal remonstrance. A 'great debate' followed. The journals of the session are lost, and we cannot replace the various arguments; but there was not a member of either House who was not connected, either by personal interest, or by


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334 sacred associations, with one or other of the religious houses; there was not one whose own experience could not test in some degree the accuracy of the Black Book; and there was no disposition to trifle with institutions which were the cherished dependencies of the great English families.

The instincts of conservatism, association, sympathy respect for ancient bequests, and a sense of the sacredness of property set apart for holy uses, and guarded by anathemas, all must have been against a dissolution; yet, so far as we can supply the loss of the journals from other accounts of the feeling of the time, there seems to have been neither hope nor desire of preserving the old system—of preserving the houses, that is, collectively under their existing statutes as foundations in themselves inviolate. The visitation had been commenced with a hope that extremities might still be avoided. But all expectation of this kind vanished before the fatal evidence which had been produced. The House of Commons had for a century and a half been familiar with the thought of suppression as a possible necessity. The time was come when, if not suppression, yet some analogous measure had become imperative. The smaller establishments, at least, could not and might not continue. Yet while, so far, there was general agreement, it was no easy matter to resolve upon a satisfactory remedy. The representatives of the founders considered that, if houses were suppressed which had been established out of estates which had belonged to their forefathers, those estates should revert to their heirs; or at


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Translation:Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, BE 2551 (2008)

Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paraminthra Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej is graciously pleased to proclaim that: Whereas it is desirable to bring into existence a law on alcoholic beverage control;

And whereas it is aware that this Act contains certain provisions giving rise to the restriction of personal rights and liberties, in respect of which section 29 incorporating sections 41, 43 and 45 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand so permit by means of the legal provisions; Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the National Legislative Assembly, as follows:

This Act shall be cited as the "Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, BE 2551 (2008)".

This Act shall come into force as from the day following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

In this Act:

"Alcoholic beverage" means a spirit under the law on spirits, but not includes medicines, psychoactive substances or harmful drugs under the laws concerned;

"Alcoholic" means a person who consumes an alcoholic beverage in a manner increasing the amount thereof time by and time, to the extent detrimental to his own physical or mental health and causing him to incur the alcohol withdrawal syndrome once he ceases to so consume;

"Sell" includes dispose of, distribute, release, exchange or give for commercial purposes;

"Advertisement" means an act performed by whatever means to allow the general public to see, hear or learn of any information for commercial purposes, and includes marketing communication;

"Marketing communication" means an activity held in various forms for the purpose of selling products, services or images, or an act of public relations, dissemination of information, marketing promotion, product exhibition, organisation or support of a special event, or direct marketing;

"Information" includes the expression of meaning through scripts, pictures, motion pictures, lights, sounds, signs or any other acts allowing the general public to understand such meaning;

"Label" means a picture, artificial mark, paper or any other material which contains information as to a product, and which is made available on, inserted in or attached to the product or its container or package, and includes a document or manual used in conjunction with the product, and a sign affixed to or made available on the product or its container or package;

"Commission" means the National Alcoholic Beverage Policy Commission;

"Control Commission" means the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission;

"Office" means the Office of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission;

"Competent authority" means a person authorised by the Minister to enforce this Act;

"Director" means the Director of the Office of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission;

"Director General" means the Director General of the Disease Control Department;

"Minister" means the Minister in charge of this Act.

The Prime Minister shall be in charge of this Act and shall be invested with the power to appoint the competent authorities and issue the ministerial regulations, rules and announcements for the purpose of enforcing this Act.

Those ministerial regulations, rules and announcements shall take effect upon their publication in the Government Gazette.

There shall be a Commission, called "National Alcoholic Beverage Policy Commission", consisting of the Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister designated by the Prime Minister as President, the Minister of Public Health as the First Vice President, the Minister of Finance as the Second Vice President, the Minister of Tourism and Sports, the Minister of Social Development and Human Security, the Minister of Interior, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Industry and the Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister, as Commissioners.

The Permanent Secretary for Public Health shall serve as Secretary, and the Director General and the Director of the Fiscal Policy Office, Assistant Secretaries.

The Commission shall be furnished with an Advisory Council obliged to render to the Commission the advice and recommendations concerning the exercise of authority of the Commission. The Council shall consist of:

(1)	 The representatives of the Tourism Council of Thailand, the Federation of Thai Industries and the Thai Chamber of Commerce;

(2)	 A representative of the organs with legal personality and objectives to campaign for the reduction and cancellation of alcoholic beverage consumption, a representative of the organs with legal personality and objectives as to children development, and a representative of the organs with legal personality and objectives as to consumer protection;

(3)	 The persons of knowledge, competence and experience in the fields of social science, law and information and communication technology, said they being appointed by the Commission and each of them being from each field.

As regards the Advisory Councillors under (2) and (3), the selection and appointment shall be made in compliance with the rules issued by the Commission.

In relation to the Advisory Councillors under (2) and (3), the provisions of sections 11, 12, 13 and 14 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the holding and vacation of office, but the ministerial power set forth in section 13 (3) shall be vested in the Commission.

At a meeting of the Commission, a quorum shall be established by the presence of not less than one half of the total number of the existing Commissioners.

The President shall preside over the meetings. In cases he is absent or incapable of functioning, the First Vice President shall take his place. If the First Vice President is absent or cannot function, the Second Vice President shall substitute for him. Should the Second Vice President be also absent or unable to function, the present Commissioners shall elect one amongst themselves to chair the meeting.

A decision of a meeting shall be reached by a majority of votes. In voting, one member shall have one vote. In case of a tie, the presiding Commissioner shall issue one additional vote as a casting vote.

The Commission shall be given the following authority:

(1)	 To determine and present to the Council of Ministers the policies, plans and measures for alcoholic beverage control by means of taxation and by other means and for treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics;

(2)	 To monitor, assess and examine the fulfillment of (1);

(3)	 To transact any other business as required by this Act, other laws or the Council of Ministers.

The Commission shall be empowered to set up the committees or working groups in charge of the activities determined by it.

The provisions of section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the conduct of meetings of the committees or working committees.

There shall be a Commission, called "Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission", consisting of:

(1)	 The Minister of Public Health as President;

(2)	 The Permanent Secretary for Public Health as the First Vice President, the Permanent Secretary for Finance as the Second Vice President, and the Permanent Secretary for Interior as the Third Vice President;

(3)	 Ex officio Commissioners, to wit, the Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister, the Permanent Secretary for Tourism and Sports, the Permanent Secretary for Social Development and Human Security, the Permanent Secretary for Commerce, the Permanent Secretary for Justice, the Permanent Secretary for Culture, the Permanent Secretary for Education, the Permanent Secretary for Industry, the Commissioner General of the National Police, the Clerk of Bangkok and the Administrator of the Health Promotion Fund;

(4)	 Subject to the rules laid down by the Minister, three nongovernmental organ representatives appointed by the Minister from the persons selected by the nongovernmental organs carrying out nonprofit activities in fields of the promotion of and campaign for the reduction of alcoholic beverage consumption, the protection of children and juveniles or females, and the protection of consumers, said each of the representatives being from each field;

(5)	 Three qualified Commissioners appointed by the Minister from the persons of knowledge, competence and experience in the field of medicine, psychology or public health, field of social welfare, social science, economics or mass communications, and field of education, religious affairs or cultures, said each of the Commissioners being from each field.

The Director General shall serve as Commissioner and Secretary; the Director General of the Excise Department, Commissioner and Assistant Secretary; and the Director, Assistant Secretary.

A person to be appointed Commissioner under section 10 (4) or (5) must be of the qualifications and not be attacked by the disqualifications as follows:

(1)	 Being a Thai national;

(2)	 Being adjudged incompetent or quasi-incompetent;

(3)	 Having been sentenced by a final judgment to imprisonment, save where the person has been relieved of such penalty for more than two years or the sentence was in consequence of a negligent offence or misdemeanour;

(4)	 Having been held guilty of an offence in connection with an alcoholic beverage, save where the person has been relieved of the relevant penalties for more than five years;

(5)	 Being a political office holder, local councillor or local administrator, executive member of or holder an executive office in a political party, or advisor or agent of a political party;

(6)	 Carrying out alcoholic beverage business or having interest in business concerning alcoholic beverages;

(7)	 Being an alcoholic.

The Commissioners under section 10 (4) and (5) shall be in their offices for a term of three years. A Commissioner having vacated office may be reappointed, but may not hold office for more than two consecutive terms.

In cases a Commissioner vacates office prior to the expiry of his term according to paragraph 1, a new Commissioner shall be appointed within ninety days. Pending such appointment, the Commissioner so retired shall remain in office and continue to function until a newly appointed Commissioner takes office.

In addition to the expiry of term, a Commissioner under section 10 (4) or (5) shall vacate office upon:

(1)	 Death;

(2)	 Resignation;

(3)	 Removal by the Minister;

(4)	 Lacking any qualification or falling under any disqualification set forth in section 11.

In the event that a Commissioner under section 10 (4) or (5) vacates office prior to the expiry of his term, a new Commissioner shall be appointed to fill such vacancy, save where the remaining term of the retired Commissioner is less than ninety days. Pending such appointment, the remaining Commissioners shall continue their functions.

Where a Commissioner under section 10 (4) or (5) is appointed during the term of a Commissioner under section 10 (4) or (5), whether being appointed additionally or appointed to fill a vacancy, the former shall be in office for the remaining term of the latter.

The provisions of section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the conduct of meetings of the Control Commission.

The Control Commission shall be granted the following authority:

(1)	 To propose to the Commission the policies, plans and measures for alcoholic beverage control by means of taxation and by other means and for treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics;

(2)	 To determine the criteria, procedure and conditions governing the packages, labels and warning information of alcoholic beverages, whether domestically manufactured or imported;

(3)	 To render to the Minister the opinions as to the determination of a period of time during which alcoholic beverages may be sold, the places where no alcoholic beverage may be sold, the forbidden means or manners of selling alcoholic beverages, the places or areas where no alcoholic beverage may be consumed and any other things used in the alcoholic beverage advertising;

(4)	 To lay down the criteria, procedure and conditions concerning the treatment or rehabilitation of alcoholics;

(5)	 To render to the Commission or Minister the recommendations that any announcements or rules, as the case may be, be issued for the purpose of enforcing this Act;

(6)	 To provide to the state and private agencies the advice, instructions and cooperation on alcoholic beverage control, as well as to propose the measures for preventing certain affects of alcoholic beverage consumption and for treating and rehabilitating the alcoholics;

(7)	 To provide or promote and support the dissemination of knowledge to the juveniles and the general public, for the purpose of bringing about the understanding as to harms and dangers of alcoholic beverages;

(8)	 To require the government officers, officials or employees of the government agencies, state agencies, state enterprises or local government agencies or any private persons to appear and express the facts or opinions or to deliver the documents or information for the sake of the enforcement of this Act;

(9)	 To undertake any other business as required by this Act or by the resolutions of the Commission.

The Control Commission shall be empowered to set up the committees or working groups to carry out the activities as determined by it.

The provisions of section 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the conduct of meetings of the committees or working groups.

There shall be a Bangkok Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control, consisting of the Governor of Bangkok as President, the Clerk of Bangkok as Vice President, the representatives of the Bureau of Metropolitan Police, the representatives of the Public Relations Department, the representatives of the Excise Department, the Director of the Bangkok Office of Public Danger Prevention and Mitigation, the Director of the Office of Social Development, one of the Directors of the Bangkok Educational Area Offices appointed by the Governor of Bangkok, the Director of the Office of Educational Affairs, the Director of the Office of Medical Affairs and the Director as Commissioners, and four qualified Commissioners appointed by the Governor of Bangkok from the persons of knowledge, competence and experience in the fields of social work, medicine, psychology and law, said each of them being from each field.

The Director of the Office of Health shall serve as Commissioner and Secretary. The Bangkok Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control may appoint not more than two officers in the Office of Health as Assistant Secretaries.

There shall be a Provincial Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control, consisting of the Provincial Governor as President, the Deputy Provincial Governor designated by the Provincial Governor as Vice President, the Commander of the Provincial Police, a local Excise Officer appointed by the Provincial Governor, the Director of the Provincial Office of Public Danger Prevention and Mitigation, one of the Director of the Provincial Educational Area Offices appointed by the Provincial Governor, the Provincial Public Relations Chief Officer, the Provincial Social Development and Human Security Officer, the Director of the Office of Disease Control responsible for the province, not more than four administrators of the province's local administrative organisations appointed by the Provincial Governor, as Commissioners, and four qualified Commissioners appointed by the Provincial Governor from the persons of knowledge, competence and experience in the fields of social work, medicine, psychology and law, said each of them being from each field.

The Provincial Public Health Officer shall serve as Commissioner and Secretary. The Provincial Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control may appoint not more than two government officers in the Provincial Public Health Office as Assistant Secretaries.

With respect to the qualified Commissioners under sections 18 and 19, the provisions of sections 11, 12, 13 and 14 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the holding of office, vacation of office, appointment of new Commissioners and execution of duties. But the ministerial power under section 13 (3) shall be vested in the Governor of Bangkok or Provincial Governor, as the case may be.

The provisions of sections 7 and 9 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the conduct of meetings and the appointment of the committees or working groups of the Bangkok Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control and the Provincial Commissions on Alcoholic Beverage Control.

The Bangkok Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control and the Provincial Commissions on Alcoholic Beverage Control shall be competent to exercise the following authority within Bangkok or their respective provinces, as the case may be:

(1)	 To render to the Control Commission the opinions concerning the measures taken for the purpose of controlling the alcoholic beverages and treating or rehabilitating the alcoholics;

(2)	 To provide to the state and private agencies the advice, instructions and cooperation on control of alcoholic beverage manufacturing, importation, sale, advertising and consumption, as well as to propose the measures for preventing certain affects of alcoholic beverage consumption and for treating and rehabilitating the alcoholics;

(3)	 To determine the guidance for guarding and protecting against the connection of the children and juveniles with the alcoholic beverages;

(4)	 To determine the guidance for reduction and cancellation of alcoholic beverage consumption, in compliance with the policies of the Commission;

(5)	 To monitor, assess and examine the legal enforcement for the purpose of reducing and cancelling alcoholic beverage consumption, and report the outcome to the Control Commission;

(6)	 To transact any other business as required by the Commission or Control Commission.

In rendering their duties under this Act, the Commissioners and the members of the committees shall be the public officers under the Criminal Code.

There shall be established in the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, an "Office of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission".

The chief officer of the Office shall be the Director and shall be responsible for the administration of its official business.

The Office shall be of the following authority:

(1)	 To carry out the documentary affairs of the Commission and the Control Commission;

(2)	 To conduct or support the conduct of study, analysis or research on the problems caused by the alcoholic beverages, and monitor and assess the implementation of the policies, working plans and measures on alcoholic beverage control and treatment or rehabilitation of alcoholics done by the relevant state and private agencies, and report the outcome to the Control Commission for acknowledgement and further submission to the Commission;

(3)	 To cooperate and collaborate with the Bangkok Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Control, Provincial Commissions on Alcoholic Beverage Control, government agencies, state agencies and relevant private sectors on the activities of alcoholic beverage control and treatment or rehabilitation of alcoholics;

(4)	 To serve as an alcoholic beverage information centre;

(5)	 To transact any other business as required by the Commission or Control Commission.

A manufacturer or importer of an alcoholic beverage shall abide by the following:

(1)	 A requirement that the packages, labels and warning information be provided for the alcoholic beverage manufactured or imported, subject to the criteria, procedure and conditions stipulated and published in the Government Gazette by the Control Commission, with the approval of the Commission;

(2)	 Other requirements stipulated and published in the Government Gazette by the Control Commission, with the approval of the Commission.

No alcoholic beverage may be sold in the following places or areas:

(1)	 Temples or places of religious services;

(2)	 Public hospitals, clinics under the law on clinics and drugstores under the law on medicines;

(3)	 Public offices, save the shopping or club sites;

(4)	 Dormitories under the law on dormitories;

(5)	 Education institutes under the law on national education;

(6)	 Petrol stations under the law on fuel oil control and the shops within their precincts;

(7)	 Parks provided by the State for recreation of the general public;

(8)	 Other places determined by the Minister, with the approval of the Commission.

No person may sell an alcoholic beverage on the date and during the time set forth in an announcement of the Minister upon advice of the Commission. Such announcement may also contain the necessary conditions or exemptions.

The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to the sales conducted by the manufacturers, importers or their agents to the sellers who are licensed under the law on spirits.

No person may sell an alcoholic beverage to the following:

(1)	 A person under twenty years of age;

(2)	 A person being in a state of drunkenness to the extent incapable of maintaining his own consciousness.

No person may sell an alcoholic beverage by the following means or in the following manners:

(1)	 Using an automatic vending machine;

(2)	 Peddling;

(3)	 Providing discounts for sale promotion purposes;

(4)	 Giving or offering to give a right to attend a competition or performance, to enjoy a service, to take part in a fortune or reward competition, or any other benefit to an alcoholic beverage buyer or to a person producing a package, label or any other thing concerning an alcoholic beverage for the purpose of exchanging it with any reward or with another alcoholic beverage;

(5)	 Distributing, gratuitously giving or giving the alcoholic beverages, or exchanging an alcoholic beverage with another alcoholic beverage, product or service, as the case may be, or distributing the alcoholic beverage samples, or encouraging the public to consume the alcoholic beverages, or stipulating certain sale conditions resulting in a directly or indirectly compulsory buying of an alcoholic beverage;

(6)	 Any other means or manners determined by the Minister upon advice of the Commission.

No person may consume an alcoholic beverage in the following places or areas:

(1)	 Temples or places of religious services, save where the consumption is part of a religious service;

(2)	 Public hospitals, clinics under the law on clinics and drugstores under the law on medicines, save the sites of private residences;

(3)	 Public offices, save the sites of private residences, clubs or ceremonious parties;

(4)	 Education institutes under the law on national education, save the sites of private residences, clubs or ceremonious parties or the education institutes where the studying of alcoholic beverage mixture takes place and which are licensed according to the law on national education;

(5)	 Petrol stations under the law on fuel oil control and the shops within their precincts;

(6)	 Parks provided by the State for recreation of the general public;

(7)	 Other places determined by the Minister upon advice of the Commission.

No person may conduct an advertisement of an alcoholic beverage or express the name or sign of such beverage in a manner directly or indirectly claiming the existence of certain properties of or encouraging another to consume an alcoholic beverage.

A manufacturer of an alcoholic beverage, irrespective of its kind, may conduct an advertisement or act of public relations only in a manner providing information and knowledge beneficial to the society, without any picture of an alcoholic beverage product or its package, save a picture of its sign or sign of the manufacturer. This shall be subject to a ministerial regulation.

The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to an advertisement of foreign origin.

An alcoholic or his relatives, or a group of persons or public or private organ with the objectives in favour of the treatment or rehabilitation of alcoholics may apply to the Office for treatment or rehabilitation support, subject to the criteria, procedure and conditions laid down by the Control Commission.

In performing his duties under this Act, a competent authority shall be invested with the following authority:

(1)	 To enter the places of business of an alcoholic beverage manufacturer, importer or seller, the places of alcoholic beverage manufacturing, importation or sale or the places of alcoholic beverage storage during their working hours, as well as inspect the vehicles, for the purpose of enforcing this Act;

(2)	 To seize or attach the alcoholic beverages of a manufacturer, importer or seller who contravenes or fails to observe this Act;

(3)	 To, in writing, require any person to appear and give statement or to delivery any document or article to further be taken into account.

In carrying out his duties under this Act, a competent authority must produce his competent authority identity card to the relevant licensees or persons.

The form of the competent authority identity cards shall be determined by the Minister.

The persons concerned shall provide appropriate facility to the competent authorities in the execution of duties under section 34.

In discharging their duties under this Act, the competent authorities shall be the public officers under the Criminal Code.

Any alcoholic beverage manufacturer or importer who fails to abide by section 26 shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not exceeding one hundred thousand baht or both.

Any person who sells an alcoholic beverage in a manner contrary to section 27 or 28 shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than six months, or a fine of not exceeding ten thousand baht or both.

Any person who sells an alcoholic beverage in a manner contrary to section 29 or 30 (1) shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not exceeding twenty thousand baht or both.

Any person who contravenes section 30 (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than six months, or a fine of not exceeding ten thousand baht or both.

Any person who contravenes section 31 shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than six months, or a fine of not exceeding ten thousand baht or both.

Any person who contravenes section 32 shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not exceeding five hundred thousand baht or both.

In addition to the penalties under paragraph 1, the contravening person shall also incur a fine of not exceeding fifty thousand baths per a day throughout the time of contravention or until the contravention is corrected.

Any person who attacks or offers resistance to a competent authority in the execution of section 34 (1) or (2) shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not exceeding twenty thousand baht or both.

Any person who, without reasonable grounds, fails to appear before or give statement to a competent authority in the execution of section 34 (3), or who, upon being ordered, fails to deliver a document or any other article to a competent authority in accordance with section 34 (3), shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding twenty thousand baht.

Any person who fails to provide facility to a competent authority, an act of breaching section 36, shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding two thousand baht.

The Control Commission shall be given the power to settle all offences under this Act. In this respect, it shall be permitted to delegate such power to the committees, judicial police officers or competent authorities, and may also lay down the settlement criteria or conditions to be complied with by the delegatees as it thinks fit.

If, in the course of an inquiry, a judicial police officer finds that any person commits an offence under this Act and the latter consents to the settlement, the officer shall refer the case to the Control Commission or its delegatee under paragraph 1 within seven days from the offender's declaration of consent.

Upon the offender's payment of the fine determined, it shall be taken that the case terminates in pursuance of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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The grounds for promulgation of this Act are as follows: The alcoholic beverages result in several problems concerning health, families, accidents and crimes, affecting the whole society and economy of the Nation in consequence. It is expedient to determine the measures for their control and for treatment and rehabilitation of the alcoholics, so that the social and economic problems and impacts would be reduced, the public health would be enhanced, the people would be aware of harms and dangers of the alcoholic beverages, and the children and juveniles would be prevented from easy access to them. It is therefore necessary to enact this Act.


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1536.] least, that the heirs should recover them upon moderate terms. In the Reforming party there was difference of opinion on the legality of secularizing property which had been given to God. Latimer, and partially Cromwell, inherited the designs of Wolsey; instead of taking away from the Church the lands of the abbeys, they were desirous of seeing those lands transferred to the high and true interests of religion. They wished to convert the houses into places of education, and to reform, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical bodies themselves. This, too, was the dream, the 'devout imagination,' as it was called, of Knox, in Scotland, as it has been since the dream of many other good men who have not rightly understood why the moment at which the Church was washed clean from its stains, and came out fresh robed in the wedding-garment of purity, should have been chosen to strip it of its resources, and depose it from power and pre-eminence. Cranmer, on the other hand, less imaginative but more practical, was


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336 that clerical corporations should be continued under any pretext—even under the mild form of cathedral chapters. Cranmer desired to see the secular system of the Church made as efficient as possible; the religious system, in its technical sense, he believed to have become a nursery of idleness, and believed that no measures of reform could restore the old tone to institutions which the world had outgrown. In the present age it will perhaps be considered that Cranmer's sagacity was more right than Latimer's enthusiasm, however at the moment men's warmer instincts might seem to have pleaded for the latter. The subsequent history both of the Scotch and English Church permits the belief that neither would have been benefited by the possession of larger wealth than was left to them. A purer doctrine has not corrected those careless and questionable habits in the management of property which were exposed by the visitors of 1535. Whether the cause of the phenomenon lies in an indifference to the things of the world, or in the more dubious palliation, that successive incumbents have only a life-interest in their incomes, the experience of three centuries has proved the singular unfitness of spiritual persons for the administration


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1536.] of secular trusts; and the friends of the establishment may be grateful that the judgment of the English laity ultimately guided them to this conclusion. They were influenced, it is likely, by a principle which they showed rather in their deeds than in their words. They would not recognize any longer the distinction on which the claims of the abbeys were rested. Property given to God, it was urged, might not be again taken from God, but must remain for ever in his service. It was replied in substance that God's service was not divided, but one; that all duties honestly done were religious duties; that the person of the layman was as sacred as the person of the priest; and the liturgy of obedience as acceptable as the liturgy of words.

Yet if, in the end, men found their way clearly, they moved towards it with slow steps; and the first resolution at which they arrived, embodied partially the schemes of each of the honest reformers. In touching institutions with which the feelings of the nation were deeply connected, prudence and principle alike dictated caution. However bitterly the people might exclaim against the abbeys while they continued to stand, their faults, if they were destroyed, would soon be forgotten. Institutions which had been rooted in the country for so many centuries, retained a hold too deep to be torn away without wounding a thousand associations; and a reaction of regret would inevitably follow among men so conservative as the English, so possessed with reverence for the old traditions of their fathers. This was to be considered; or rather the


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338, the Crown, and the council felt as the people felt. Vast as the changes were which had been effected, there had been as yet no sweeping measures. At each successive step, Henry had never moved without reluctance. He hated anarchy; he hated change: in the true spirit of an Englishman, he never surrendered an institution or a doctrine till every means had been exhausted of retaining it, consistently with allegiance to truth. The larger monasteries, therefore, with many of the rest, had yet four years allowed them to demonstrate the hopelessness of their amendment, the impossibility of their renovation. The remainder were to reap the consequences of their iniquities; and the judicial sentence was pronounced at last in a spirit as rational as ever animated the English legislature

'Forasmuch,' says the preamble of the Act of Dissolution, 'as manifest sin, vicious, carnal, and abominable living, is daily used and committed among the little and small abbeys, priories, and other religious houses of monks, canons, and nuns, where the congregation of such religious persons is under the number of twelve, whereby the governors of such religious houses and their convents, spoil, consume, destroy, and utterly waste their churches, monasteries, principal houses, farms, and granges, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, the slander of true religion, and to the great infamy of the King's Highness and of the realm, if redress should not be had thereof; and albeit that many continual visitations hath been heretofore had by the space of two hundred years and more, for an honest and


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1536.] reformation of such unthrifty, carnal, and abominable living; yet, nevertheless, little or none amendment is hitherto had, but their vicious living shamelessly increaseth and augmenteth, and by a cursed custom is so rooted and infested, that a great multitude of the religious persons in such small houses do rather choose to rove abroad in apostacy than to conform them to the observation of true religion; so that without such small houses be utterly suppressed, and the religious persons therein committed to great and honourable monasteries of religion in this realm, where they may be compelled to live religiously for the reformation of their lives, there can be no reformation in this behalf: in consideration hereof the King's most royal Majesty, being supreme head on earth, under God, of the Church of England, daily finding and devising the increase, advancement, and exaltation of true doctrine and virtue in the said Church, to the only glory of God, and the total extirping and destruction of vice and sin; having knowledge that the premises be true, as well by accounts of his late visitation as by sundry credible informations; considering also that divers great monasteries of this realm, wherein, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed, be destitute of such full number of religious persons as they ought and may keep; hath thought good that a plain declaration should be made of the premises, as well to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal as to other his loving subjects the Commons in this present Parliament assembled. Whereupon, the said Lords and Commons, by a great deliberation, finally


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340 be resolved that it is and shall be much more to the pleasure of Almighty God, and for the honour of this His realm, that the possessions of such spiritual houses, now spent, and spoiled, and wasted for increase and maintenance of sin, should be converted to better uses; and the unthrifty religious persons so spending the same be compelled to reform their lives.'

The Parliament went on to declare, that the lands of all monasteries the incomes of which were less than two hundred pounds a-year, should be 'given to the King.' The monks were either to be distributed in the great abbeys, 'or to be dismissed with a permission,' if they desired it, 'to live honestly and virtuously abroad.' 'Some convenient charity' was to be allowed them for their living; and the chief head or governor was to have 'such pension as should be commensurate with his degree or quality.' All debts, whether of the houses or of the brothers individually, were to be carefully paid; and finally, one more clause was added, sufficient in itself to show the temper in which the suppression had been resolved upon. The visitors had reported a few of the smaller abbeys as free from stain. The King was empowered, at his discretion, to permit them to


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 felt, in addition to the big shock, no less than seven other tremors, or distinct quakes, during the night. Nothing more forcibly or vividly brought home to us the nature of the country we were now in. The eerie feeling produced by the shock does not readily pass away. One lies in a state of intense expectancy, waiting for the next development. I was not frightened; but I, as well as others, got a severe headache. This must have come, I think, from nervous tension. We were glad when sunrise awoke us from a troubled sleep; and you may be sure there was an animated interchange of what we thought and how we felt, while we discussed our morning meal.

A terrific row now, outside! Is it another earthquake?—a murder?—a rising of the natives? What can it be? We rush to the verandah, and there, in front of the assembled clan, a stalwart female paces to and fro, literally foaming with rage and bristling with electric energy, as she denunciates some one in voluble Maori commination. What an Amazon! How she gesticulates! She clenches her fist, and strikes it with a whack into the palm of her other hand. She walks to and fro with short angry steps, like a savage treading a war measure;—she stamps her foot like an angry charger chafing at restraint. What a torrent of words!—what a shrill clamour! Can this be the gentle Kate, our débonnaire and soft-voiced guide, with whom we were so favourably impressed yesternight?

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 cause of her fierce indignation we excused her in our hearts at once. The fact was, Kate had just discovered that one of the interesting youths of the hamlet had stolen her watch from her tent, and, having a shrewd suspicion as to the identity of the culprit, she was piling the agony on his head and surely never was there such an oration as that just so vehemently declaimed by this roused Pythoness.

Amid interjections, exclamations, soothing entreaties, and wild outcries, the torrent of her invective went on, until in sheer physical exhaustion she was compelled to pause; and then, turning to our party, she explained her loss to us in English, and ever and anon turned round to still further lash with her scorpion tongue the supposed thief, who cowered before her like a guilty thing.

"My word!" says McRae. "If Kate does not get her watch back, I pity the whole tribe of them. She rules the roost here when she likes."

The thief seemed to think he had made a bad job of it too; for by-and-by Kate found the watch restored to its wonted position at the head of her bed, and she soon regained her accustomed composure.

In the meantime, however, she had certainly altered our first impressions, and revealed to us an unsuspected phase in her curiously complex character.

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 Auckland, but preferred the free unconventional life of the whare and the bush. At times she could be conveniently deaf. She professes a very outspoken contempt for blue ribbonism, and can put herself outside a sample of whisky with as much nonchalance as apparent gusto. Not that she is intemperate; far from it. We found her exceedingly attentive and obliging, and she was particularly nice in her behaviour to one old lady of the party, who but for Kate's strong guiding arm would have fared badly during the long day's sight-seeing. Kate is proud of her Scotch descent, and never fails to put in her claim to Caledonian nationality. Altogether, we found her an amusing study. Sophia, the other accredited guide, we did not see at all. She had gone away on a visit to some other settlement.

I would fain record my impressions of the Terraces. I know they have been done to death. I am aware that words are all too feeble to give a just estimate of their many-sided wondrous beauty. And yet they so haunt my imagination! They so appeal to my inner consciousness that I must commit my thoughts about them to paper, and perchance let my friends share with me, in some measure, the keen pleasure of the retrospection.

We were fortunate in the weather. It was a glorious morning when we started. The sun lit up the long blue arm of Lake Tarawera, on which we gazed from the top of the steep descent, down which we scrambled and jumped all full of robust gaiety and pleasurable expectancy. Marshalled

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 by Kate, we crowd into the large whaleboat. There are eleven of us tourists, six brawny rowers, one crouching native woman and Kate. Altogether nineteen of a party. With a cheery cry, the Maoris dip their oars into the blue lake; and to the accompaniment of song and chorus and jest, they pull strongly and steadily for the open lake, and soon before a spanking breeze we are scudding merrily along.

"What a day we're having!" One excitable punster of our party, in the exuberance of his delight, and anxious to show his appreciation of a good chorus that has just been sung, tosses his hat high in air; and, of course, it at once becomes a sport for the breezes, sails away to leeward, and soon floats upon the tiny billows.

"Man overboard!" we yell. "'Bout ship! Man the lifeboat!" The Maoris grin, the ladies squeal, the gentlemen roar, and Kate claps her hands and yells out, "A fine! a fine! A bottle of whisky for the men!" For the moment we might have pardonably been mistaken for a small private lunatic asylum out for a picnic.

Away we go in pursuit of the hat. We have to haul down the sail, and we lose ten minutes; but under the promise of the "Barley Bree," the rowers strain at the oars, and soon the hat is restored to the bereaved owner.

On again we go. What a beautiful expanse! What a vivid green on the steep precipitous banks! Beautiful coves indent the coast, with here and there a fringe of sandy beach. Some giant

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 of gray pumice stand out in lonely isolation from the steep point of yonder rounded hill. The truncated cone of Mount Tarawera stands up black against us yonder; while Mount Edgecombe, a very Saul amongst the others, rears his towering crest far, far away, his base being lost in the curve of distance.

We pass the Devil's Rock, on which it was customary formerly to deposit some offering to propitiate "Taipo" (the Maori equivalent for Satan) into giving the votary a fair wind; the offering being flowers, twigs of trees, fruit, fish, &c. Kate suggests that the white folks generally put pennies on the rock now instead of twigs; but the surroundings, not being favourable to the growth of a superstitious credulity, we ignore the possibility of satanic interference in pur affairs, and defy "the devil and all his works."

We pull in now to a native settlement, where for sundry white coin we procure two kits of black grewsome-looking [sic] fresh-water prawns and a kit of very inferior apples.

Turning a point, with a solitary shag sitting reflectively on a partly-submerged tree-trunk, we enter another long arm or gulf, and find it terminates in a marshy flat, with a few huts dumped down promiscuously on the rising ground at the back, and a strong running creek bisecting the level delta; and on either side white cliffs, draped in part with ferns, and with steam rising up from hot springs at their base. On ahead, amid burnt-looking bleak hummocks, we see more steam

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 clouds, and we are informed, "There lie the Terraces!"

The dream of years is about to be realized. Hastily disembarking, leaving the weaker and aged members of the party to be poled up the swift creek in canoes, we put on our sand-shoes, tramp along in Indian file through the tall manukau scrub. Kate's stalwart figure leads the way, with free swinging gait and elastic tread.

After a walk through the bracken of about a mile, we top a ridge, and at our feet lies the wonder of the world that has brought us so far. In the hollow flows the swift clear stream, up which we see the Maoris poling the canoes, with our friends seated very comfortably therein. On the left glistens the cold lake, steely and still. On the right gleams Rotomahana, the hot lake, with its sedgy shallows, its reeking, steaming margin, its two floating islands, and its winged hosts of waterfowl.

Right in front, spread out like a snowy cloud dropped from the heavens—rising to its fleecy frosted source, in the black, burnt bosom of the hill—billowing over in countless crested cascades of alabaster-like purity and marble whiteness; by terraced gradations, each one a gemmed chalice or fretted basin of purest white, the famous terraces of Rotomahana confront us!

We plod over a slushy courtyard as it were, and then reverently and softly, as if in the precincts of a sacred shrine, a silence having settled on our whole party, we mount those pearly stairs of exceeding loveliness.

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 Each fresh step is a new revelation. We look above; all is a glistening, glowing mass of unearthly brilliancy. We look down and who may describe the ineffable beauty of those translucent basins of opaline-tinted water? The blue is like nothing else "in the heavens above, or the earth beneath." To what, then, can it be likened? It is a colour unique—sui generis—never again to be forgotten. Lapis lazuli is muddy before it. Opal, with its iridescence, gleams not so perfectly soft and lovely. The azure vault of heaven itself has not the dainty delicacy of that pearly tint. It is, in a word, exceeding beautiful; and it must be seen to be understood. No man can describe it adequately. Nay, not even Ruskin, master though he be, could fitly picture it. And there is not one or two, but tens and twenties of these chaliced cups. The saucers of the gods, surely, these? The tea service of the Grecian goddesses? Can you not fancy Venus reposing on yonder crystalline couch, with its tracery of marble fretwork, its pearly lace woven by fairy fingers, dipping her dainty lips to sip the liquid gems that gleam so soft under the sunbeams? Bah! what need for metaphor? As I recall the scene I feel inclined to throw down the pen, and feel how utterly all endeavour must fail to reproduce the picture in words.

With a north-east wind blowing, we were fortunate enough to behold the White Terrace in one of the rare intervals, when the boiling fount (the origin of all this pearly overflow) was empty and dry.

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 This peculiarity is another of the mysteries of the place. Why the subterranean springs should have electric affinities for particular winds, may be known to Pan; the fauns and elves and naiads and fairies, may know all about it, but mortals cannot explain it. The fact remains—the vast cavity at the top was empty. We could walk down its frosted steeps, and gaze into the very throat of the great geyser itself. The sun had licked dry the steps of the terraces, and the whiteness was almost too intense for the human eye. To peer underneath the curling lip of some of the frosted billows of stone was a relief, and in the semi-shade—what fresh revelations of beauty? Pearly globules, clusters of gems, delicate lacework, fretted coral, fluted tracery, crystallized dew, drifted flakes, curves, webs, cones, prisms, volutes, of immaculate glory—of whiteness such as no snow could equal—a creation of unutterable loveliness. An efflorescence of wondrous purity and beauty. It seems a shame—a sacrilege—to defile such a floor with common tread. I felt as Moses may have felt in the Presence itself, when he heard the voice: "Take thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."

And then the contrasts! Look at this mass of black rock, uprearing its bulk right from the lip of the great gleaming crater. The presiding genius has tried to relieve its uncompromising blackness by a thick drapery of soft moss and vernal ferns The same green adornment brightens up the burnt scorched background of the cliff beyond. How

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 one wonders to see such delicate fronds growing with vivid greenness on the very edge of smouldering clay; and, to all seeming, thriving beside living steam from pent-up fires below. And yet we shortly cease to wonder at anything. Everything is wonderful; to such an extent, that the very capacity for wonder seems to become blunted and sated with repletion of wonders.

Right at the back of the geyser, having walked half round the circumference of the great open basin, we come up to a roaring blow-hole. There is a noise as if all the din of Pluto's multitudinous workshops were focussed into this outlet. A swift current of hot air and attenuated steam comes screeching forth; and so strong is the blast that handfuls of large pebbles, thrown in by Kate, are sent spinning back, aloft into the air. Spouts of steam and jets of boiling water flash and flicker, and spirt and sputter among the white rocks below. They trickle and trail in glistening splendor over the incrusted bosses, the tattooed fringes, and the marble lips of the steep crater, at the back of which, right under the burning rocks, we are now standing. We are enveloped in steam. "The fountains of the deep" are breaking up all around us. It looks like a grand cloud of perpetual incense rising up to the great source of all life and activity, and we feel as the Psalmist may have felt, and our heart whispers to us, "Shall not Thy works praise thee, O God?"

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 that apocalyptic vision, and can now realize how even earthly forces may be joining with spiritual intelligences, in the never-ending adoration and ascription; and with a new significance we think of the phrase, "They rest not day and night."

Leaving the empty circumference, with its background of steam and ferns, and spouting gouts of boiling water, we descend the terraces, seeing the heavens in every pool; and in a retired nook to the left, under an overhanging canopy of scrub, we come upon three silently overflowing hot wells, pouring their scalding libations over three crested structures of great beauty, to which fancy has given the names of Queen Victoria's Crown and the Prince of Wales's Crown. The third Kate appropriates, and calls it Kate's Crown.

Through a leafy arcade we now thread our way. The ground sounds hollow, and echoes to our tread. There is a scent of hothouse air, and pulling up the long velvety moss, a tiny steam-escape follows the roots, which are hot enough to be almost unpleasant to the touch. Nothing can more vividly suggest the thinness of the crust on which we gingerly tread. What a forcing-house!

Emerging into the open, we now stand on a narrow neck of land, with crumbling, burning rocks all around, on which it would be unsafe to venture. A deep, black valley, called the Valley of Death (most appropriate name), lies on the one hand, and on the other is an agitated pool, in which, some time ago, a poor woman was scalded to death.

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 A little further, and we come to a geyser called the Steam Engine, with a great spray leaping over ochreous-looking rocks.

Below is a boiling, hissing Phlegethon. It rejoices in the appellation of Ngahapu, meaning, "All the tribes rolled into one." Its hellish activity justifies its title. It is one of the most vigorous geysers of all the district. It has intermittent spasms of activity, during which the huge column of water spouts up with amazing force, and the din and commotion are truly infernal. A great column of steam towers aloft, in ever changing volumes like the "Pillar of cloud by day." The incessant vibration, and clang, and pulsing din, go unintermittingly on, and almost deafen us, as we shudderingly hurry past.

A few more yards bring us to the shore of the lake—blast-holes here too, on all hands—Takapau, a boiling cauldron, with countless lesser comrades, seething and bubbling all around, make us think that surely here all the witches of the earth are boiling their deadly porridge "thick and slab."

Through the scrub again. Now we come on a perfect hecatomb of broken bottles, empty cans, straw, envelopes, and waste paper. This is humorously named by Kate the Rotomahana Hotel, and is the place where lunch is usually devoured.

Up a steep, muddy hill now, and at the top we emerge on the mud flat, where many boiling mudholes repeat the phenomena we have already seen, only substituting liquid boiling mud instead of water. We look down, and see a seething mass of molten

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 mud in incessant motion. It rises up in great circling domes and plastic cupolas, which seethe, and expand, and swell, and then break with a lazy, hissing, escape of steam; and the mass falls back and collapses, and heaves up and down with an unctuous horribleness. Sometimes a big spout rises up nearly to the outside rim of the deep hole, and then falls back with a sullen, vicious flop, as if some slimy spirit, there imprisoned, were angry and baffled at not being able to reach us, and smirch and scald us.

Here is the Coffee Pot, not inaptly named, if one looks at the brown liquid, swirling around, with an oily, dirty scum circling in endless eddies on the surface.

Behind us, as we glance around, the whole hillside, for many acres, smokes and steams, and as the sun is glinting on it, the effect is indescribably lovely, as contrasted with the sullen mudholes into which we have been peering. The light fleecy wreaths of steam take on all sorts of rainbow tints from the sun, and curl gracefully aloft, like an army of cobwebs floating across a lawn on some sunny morning in spring.

There are now many extinct cones in this valley and yet all the sights and sounds' have a weird, uncanny suggestiveness. Poke your stick through the thin crust, and steam issues forth. Every cranny and fissure is steaming and hot, and the whole mountain is undoubtedly a hotbed of combustion.

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