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Title: Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce

Author: E. R. Billings

Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24471]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all
other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling
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Page 62-63: The part between = obviously did not belong in that place
and has been removed, "From this time forward the Plantation seemed to
prosper, Charles granted lands to all the planters and adventurers who
would till them, upon paying the annual sum of two shillings payable
to the crown for each hundred acres. =direction, appointing the
governor and council himself, and= Before the death of King James,
however, the cultivation of tobacco had become so extensive that every
other product seemed of but little value in comparison with it, and
the price realized from its sale being so much greater than that
obtained for "Corne," the latter was neglected and its culture almost
entirely abandoned."

Page 115: The verse "And can but end with time;" was missing and has
been added.]

TOBACCO:

ITS

HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE,

MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE,

WITH

AN ACCOUNT OF ITS VARIOUS MODES OF USE, FROM ITS FIRST
DISCOVERY UNTIL NOW.

BY

E. R. BILLINGS.

With Illustrations by Popular Artists.

"My Lord, this sacred herbe which never offendit,
Is forced to crave your favor to defend it."

Barclay.

"But oh, what witchcraft of a stronger kind,
Or cause too deep for human search to find,
Makes earth-born weeds imperial man enslave,--
Not little souls, but e'en the