UNCLE IN ENGLAND. 93 



West Indies, where you know, Mrs. P. resided 

 some time. 



My uncle was inquiring from her this evening 

 about the different modes of culture and the 

 proper soil for tobacco. Few plants, she says, 

 are so much affected by situation ; it acquires 

 such different qualities from the soil, that tobacco 

 plants which have been raised in one district, if 

 transplanted into another, though not a quarter 

 of a mile distant, will entirely change their fla- 

 vour. For instance : the Macabau snuff is made 

 from the leaves of a tobacco plant which takes 

 its name from the parish of Macabau in St. 

 Kitt's, and there only the real snuff of that name 

 can be prepared. Both plants and seed have 

 been tried in all parts of that island, and in 

 several of the other islands too, but the peculiar 

 scent has not in any instance been retained. 



The tobacco of St. Thomas has also a parti- 

 cular smell, which the produce of no other island 

 resembles. It is a curious circumstance that 

 none of it is manufactured there ; it is all sent 

 to Copenhagen, and is returned from thence to 

 St. Thomas, and made into snuff. In Bar- 

 badoes they make the highly scented rose- snuff, 

 which is sometimes imitated in London by add- 

 ing attar of rose to fine rapee ; but in the island 

 it is made by grating into the snuff a fruit called 

 the rose-apple, which is cultivated for that pur- 

 pose. It is, however, neither a rose nor au 



