Excerpt from An Essay on the Opium Trade: Including a Sketch of Its History, Extent, Effects, Etc., As Carried on in India and China This is the only American firm, as far as we can learn, engaged in the tramez and what is the amount of capital invested, or the extent of the trade carried on under the American flag, we have no means at hand of knowing. The same censures which are applied to the English, should also be meted out to all Americans engaged in this traffic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.