The large number of Distilleries and breweries was unpleasantly suggestive of the intemperate habits of the people.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
273. Langdale, Distilleries fired by mob, iii.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
All the histories of those first years, in short, abound in long accounts about the industry and agriculture of the natives: mines, gold-washings, looms, farms, barter, naval construction, raising of poultry and stock, weaving of silk and cotton, Distilleries, manufactures of arms, pearl fisheries, the civet industry, the horn and hide industry, etc.
"The Indolence of the Filipino"
Jose Rizal