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" Let us suppose, that our hungry adventurer had 

 fallen on the tobacco plant ; he would find nothing 

 forbidding in its appearance ; to his smell, it would 

 be rather ungrateful ; to his taste, so nauseating, that 

 it is surprising, how the same man ever ventured to 

 taste green tobacco twice ; but, if taken into his sto- 

 mach, convulsions, fainting, and a temporary loss of 

 his senses follow; accompanied with violent and 

 nasty operations. If that which is wholesome, affect 

 the senses of animals with pleasure, and invite them 

 to convert it into their own juices; and, if that which 

 is unwholesome, excite disgust in smell, taste, and 

 appetite, then would our adventurer rank this herb 

 among poisons, and note it as one of those, which 

 nature forbade him to use. Yet man, by perverting 

 his nature, has learnt to love it! and when perverted 

 nature excites a desire, that appetite or desire is in- 

 ordinate or ungovernable ; for the re-action or physi- 

 cal resistance to evil will, like that of the moral, lessen 

 in proportion to the repetition of the attacks ; and 

 then these guards of health, already mentioned, desert 

 nature, and go over to the side of her enemy ; and 

 thus we see how intemperate drinking and immode- 

 rate smoking began their destructive career. 



" The first effect of tobacco on those, who have 

 surmounted the natural abhorrence of it ; and who 

 have not only learnt to endure it, but even to love it ; 

 and who have already commenced the nasty custom 

 of chewing or smoking, is either a waste or vitiation 

 of the saliva. 



