It was intended that a copy of this should be sent into different towns of the kingdom, that all might know, if possible, the horrors (as far as the evidence contained them) of this execrable trade; and as it was possible that these copies might lie in the places where they were sent, without a due attention to their contents, I resolved, with the approbation of the committee, to take a journey, and for no other purpose than personally to recommend that they might be read.
The books, having been printed, were dispatched before me.

Of this tour I shall give the reader no other account than that of the progress of the remedy, which the people were then taking into their own hands.

And first I may observe, that there was no town, through which I passed, in which there was not some one individual who had left off the use of sugar.

In the smaller towns there were from ten to fifty by estimation, and in the larger from two to five hundred, who had made this sacrifice to virtue.

These were of all ranks and parties.