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I concetve Tobacco to be a Piant abouuding with Nitro-Sulphureous Parti-cles; for the Planters Try the Goodneß of their Seed, by Casting a litrlethcreof into the Ftre ; if it bS Good it will Sparkle aster the manner ofGun-powder : so will the Stalks of Tobacco Leaves, and perhaps has some-thing Analogous to the Narcotick Sulphur of Venus, which the Chjmsts st»Industrioufly Labour aster. The World knows little of the Eflicacy ofits Oy/j which has Wonderfull Effecti in the Curing of Old Inveterate Sores,and Scrophulous Sweütngs, and some, othemise apply’d and Qualify’d. TheGoodneß of Tobacco 1 look on primarily consists in the Voiatihty of itsNitre : and hence the Sandy Grounds that are moli Impregnated therewith,and whose Nitrous Sah is most Volatile, for such Grounds are quicklicstSpent, yield Tobacco ’s that have the Richest Scent, and that (hortly becotnesa Pleajant Smoak ; whereas, in Tobacco that Grows on Stiff-Ground, theSaks scera more Fix’d, and Lock’d up in the 0)1, so that whilst New, ’tisvery Heady, and Strong, and requires some Time for its Salts to Free them-solves, and become Volatile■, which it Manifests by itshaving an XJrmousSmell « T he fame Reason Satisfies, why Tobacco that grows on Ltrw-Lands, as far as the Saks, tho’ the Plant be never Over-flow'd with Salt-Water, yet the Ground that Feeds the Piant being Impregnated with Salt-water , that Tobacco Smoaks not Pleasantly, and will scarcely Keep Fire,but do all that a Man can, will oft go out, ’till affer it has beenKepc someConsiderable Time; which may be aliign’d to the more Fixed Saline Particlesof the Marine Sah in these Plants, which require more timee’re they be ren-dred Volatile. I have observ’d, that that which is call’d Pine- Wood-Land,tho’ it be a Sandy-Soil, tven the Sweet-Scented Tobacco that grows thereon,being Large and Porous, agreeable to Aranoko Tobacco, Smoaks as Courflyas Aranoko : wherefore ’tis, that I believe the Microfcope might make nota-ble Discoveries towards the Knowledge of Good Tobacco: for the Clofer theComposition of the Leas, the Better the Tobacco ; and therefore the Plantersand Merchants brag 01 the Substance of their Tobacco ; which Word, didthey always take it in a True Senfe, for the Solidneß, and not mistake itfor the Thickneß, it would be more consonant to a true Obsorvation: for as1 said of the Pine Wood Tobacco, some of it is Thick and not Solii, and differsfrotn the Best Tobacco, as Büß döcs from Tanifd Leatber ; so that if the Tobaccobe Sound and not Rotten, you may give a great Guess at the Goodneß ofTobacco, when you Weigh the Hogßeads, before you Sae thtm: for it anEqualCare be taken in the Packing of thtm, the Best Tobacco will Weigh theHeavieß, and Pack the Closost. Now I said, that the Sweet-Scented-Tobaccomost in Vogue, which was most Fam’d for its Scent, was that that Grewon Sand) Land ; which is True, if you would Smoak. it whilst New, or whilstonly z or 3 Tears Old; but if you keep the Stiß-Land-Tobaceo, which isgcncrally a Tobacco of great Substance 5 or 6 Tears it will much Excel 1 : fortho’ the Sandy-Land-Tebacco abound wiih a Volatile Nitre at first, yet theSt iß"-Land-Tebacco abounds with a Greater Quantity ot Nitre, only thatit is Lock’d upin its Oyl at First, and requirts more Time to Extricate itsoff, and become Volatile - } but the Pine-Wood-Land having little of the Ni-

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