CHAPTER V. 



TOBACCO IN EUROPE. (CONTINUED.) 



EANDEK in his work " Tobacologia," (1622) gives 

 a list of the various kinds of tobacco then used and 

 where they were cultivated, among them are the 

 following well known now as standard varieties of 

 tobacco: Brazilian, St. Domingo, Orinoco, Virginia, and 

 Trinidad tobacco. Fairholt says of the latter that it was 

 most popular in England and is frequently named by early 

 authors.* Tobacco when prepared for us was made into 

 long rolls or large balls which often answered for the 

 tobacconist's sign. What we now call cut tobacco was not 

 as popular then as roll. Smokers carried a roll of tobacco, 

 a knife and tinder to ignite their tobacco. At the close of 

 the Sixteenth Century tobacco was introduced into the East. 

 In Persia and Turkey where at first its use was opposed by 

 the most cruel torture it gained at length the sanction and 

 approval of even the Sultan himself. Pallas gives the fol- 

 lowing account in regard to its first introduction into Asia : 



" In Asia, and especially in China, the use of tobacco for 

 smoking is more ancient than the discovery of the New 

 "World, I too scarcely entertain a doubt. Among the Chinese, 

 and among the Mongol tribes who had the most intercourse 

 with them, the custom of smoking is so general, so frequent, 

 and become so indispensable a luxury; the tobacco purse 

 affixed to their belt, so necessary an article of dress; the 

 form of the pipes from which the Dutch seern to have taken 

 the model of theirs so original ; and, lastly the preparation of 

 the yellow leaves, which are merely rubbed to pieces and 



* Neander says that Varinas tobacco was the beat. 



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