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fpiral wreaths afcend from the feathered pipe 

 of peace, the compaft that has juft been 

 made, is confidered as facred and inviolable. 

 Likewife, when they addrefs their great Fa- 

 ther, or his guardian Spirits, refiding as they 

 believe in every extraordinary production of 

 nature *, they make liberal offerings of 

 this valuable plant to them, doubting not 

 but that they fecure thereby the protection 

 they requeft. 



Smoking was at firft fuppofed to be the 

 only means by which its virtues could be 

 attained j but at length it was found out 

 that the juices of it extracted by chewing 

 were of a cordial nature, alleviating, in la* 

 borious employments, the cravings of hun- 

 ger, or the depreffion of fatigue ; and alfo, 

 that the powder of it received into the head 

 through the noftrils, in moderate quantities, 

 was a falubrious and refrefhing fternutatory. 

 For thefe purpofes, the Americans inhabit- 



* Vide Travels into the interior parts of North- 

 America, chap. 13, page 382. 



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