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wanted for use. When to be used for smoking, cut off a few 

 inches of the rope, open it out, and cut in into shreds with a 

 knife or chopper, so that it my resemble shag tobacco. If it 

 is to be made into snuff, open out the leaves, dry them over the 

 fire or in an oven, and pound them in a mortar, adding to the 

 powder any scented water, or volatile odoriferous oil, at pleasure. 

 If more snuff is made then is wanted for immediate use, put it 

 in a glass bottle, and cork it closely. The Scotch and Irish 

 snuffs are, for the most part, made from the midribs; the Stras- 

 burgh, French, Spanish, and Russian snuffs from the soft parts 

 of the leaves. 



The process of forming cigars is very simple ; but, as it con- 

 not be done well without much practice, it would be of little 

 use to offer a description. Whoever wishes to make himself 

 master of all that is known on the culture of tobacco or different 

 modes of its manufacture, may consult Cours d'Agriculture 

 Complet, Paris, 8vo. edit. 1823, art. Tabac; Carver's Treatise, 

 London, 8vo 1779; Tatham's Essay, London, 8vo. 1800; 

 The Experienced Bremen Cigar-Maker, or fundamental and 

 practical Instructions for making Twenty-five Sorts of Cigars 

 accord ing- to the latest experience, Chemnitz, Kretschmar, 1824, 

 8vo.; Schmidt's Tobacco Culture of the French and Dutch 

 combined, with the Mode of preparing the Plant for Use, 

 Dresden, 8vo. 1824, Arndd. 



On the substance called Fine Linen in the Sacred 

 Writings. By the Rev. David Scott, M.D., M.W.S. &c. 



[Abridged from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.] 



When I first turned my attention to the fine linen of the 

 Sacred Writings, I imagined I should soon come to a decided 

 opinion ; but, on inquiry, I found it involved in great obscuri- 

 ty, chiefly arising from the vague terms which the ancients 

 had employed in describing it. 



The indistinct accounts which they have left us, will be some 

 excuse, it is hoped, for the imperfections of this essay, which 

 was undertaken at the suggestion of a venerable member of 

 this society, -Dr. Baird, Principal of the University, and one 

 of the ministers of the city. 



Linen, as every one knows, is a manufacture from the fibres 

 of flax, and, in correct language, has the character of fine, 

 when the manufacture is of a superior quality. 



Among the Israelites, garments made of linen were worn by 

 the Levites, in contradistinction to those made of fine linen, 

 worn by the priests. 



