ed
nonburning tobacco, which smoaks in the pipe like leather,
unless it be of a good age. When land is tired of tobacco,
it will bear Indian Corn or English Wheat, or any other
European grain or seed with wonderful increase.

[Illustration: Virginia tobacco field, 1620.]

"Tobacco and Indian Corne are planted in hills as hops, and
secured by worm fences, which are made of rails supporting
one another very firmly in a particular manner. Tobacco
requires a great deal of skill and trouble in the right
management of it. They raise the plants in beds, as we do
Cabbage plants; which they transplant and replant upon
occasion after a shower of rain, which they call a season.
When it is grown up they top it, or nip off the head,
succour it, or cut off the ground leaves, weed it, hill it;
and when ripe, they cut it down about six or eight leaves on
a stalk, which they carry into airy tobacco houses, after it
is withered a little in the sun, there it is hung to dry on
sticks, as paper at the paper-mills; when it is in proper
case, (as they call it) and the air neither too moist, nor
too dry, they strike it, or take it down, then cover it up
in bulk, or a great heap, where it lies till they have
leisure or occasion to strip it (that is pull the leaves
from the stalk) or stem it (that is to take out the great
fibres) and tie it up in hands, or streight lay it; and so
by degrees prize or press it with proper engines into great
Hogsheads, containing from about six to eleven hundred
pounds; four of which Hogsheads make a tun by dimention, not
by weight; then it is ready for sale or shipping.

"There are two sorts of tobacco, viz., Oroonoko the
stronger, and sweet-scented the milder; the first with a
sharper leaf like a Fox's ear, and the other rounder and
with finer fibres: But each of these are varied into several
sorts, much as Apples and Pears are; and I have been
informed by the Indian traders, that the Inland Indians have
sorts of tobacco much differing from any planted or used by
the Europeans. The Indian Corn is planted in hills and
weeded much as tobacco. This grain is of great increase and
most general use; for with this is made good bread, cakes,
mush, and hommony for the negroes, which with good pork and
potatoes (red and white