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down and die in labor of the mighty plan he had conceived. 

 At length, having occupied twelve good months in puffing 

 and paddling, and talking and walking, having traveled 

 over all Holland, and even taken a peep into France and 

 Germany, having smoked five hundred and ninety-nine 

 pipes and three hundred weight of the best Virginia 

 tobacco, my great-grandfather gathered together all that 

 knowing and industrious class of citizens who prefer attend- 

 ing to anybody's business sooner than their own, and having 

 pulled off his coat and five pair of breeches he advanced 

 Bturdily up and laid the corner-stone of the church, in the 

 presence of the whole multitude, just at the commence- 

 ment of the thirteenth month." 

 He also alludes to Hudson whom he says was : 

 " A seafaring man of renown, who had learned to smoke 

 tobacco under Sir Walter Raleigh, and is said to have been 

 the first to introduce it into Holland, which gained him 

 much popularity in that country, and caused him to find 

 great favor in their High Mightinesses, the lords and states 

 general, and also of the honorable West India Company. 

 He was a short, square, brawny old gentleman, with a double 

 chin, a mastiff mouth, and a broad copper nose, which was 

 supposed in those days to have acquired its fiery hue from the 

 constant neighborhood of his tobacco pipe. * * * As 

 chief mate and favorite companion, the commander chose 

 Master Robert Juet, of Limehouse, in England. By some 

 his name has been spelled Chewit, ascribed to the circum- 

 etance of his having been the first man that ever chewed 

 tobacco. * * * * Under every misfortune he comforted 

 himself with a quid of tobacco, and the truly philosophical 

 maxim, * that it will be all the same a hundred years hence ! ' ' 

 Further on he alludes to the attempt to subjugate New 

 Amsterdam to the British crown and the effect produced by 

 the burghers lighting their pipes. " When" he says " Cap- 

 tain Argol's vessel hove in sight, the worthy burghers were 

 seized with such a panic, that they fell to smoking their pipes 

 with astonishing vehemence, insomuch that they quickly 

 raised a cloud, which, combining with the surrounding woods 

 and marshes, completely enveloped and concealed their 

 beloved village ; and overhung the fair regions of Pavonia : 

 BO that the terrible Captain Argol passed on, totally unsus- 

 picious that a sturdy little Dutch settlement lay snugly 

 couched in the mud, under cover of all this pestilent vapor." 



