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Hemp

,—a plant with which they make ropes. Never did the cultivation of hemp deserve more encourage ent than in the year of our Lord 1794, when the horrible crimes of atistocracy seem to be preparing punishments that will require a vast consumption of the above salutory vegetable. The guillotine is not yet introduced into England.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Hemp