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the fifty young men with whom I parted, leaving
them to enjoy the pleasures of eating, drinking, smok–
ing and gambling, forty-four have already gone to
destruction. Some of them came to a most terrible end.
"One, in a state of intoxication, fell head foremost from the
pier at Havre, France, and became embedded in the mud. The
receding tide exposed his sad and dishonored remains to the
public view."
The Hon. E. C. Delavan,
1830.
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