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ing the interior fettlements manufacture it 

 in the following eafy manner. Being pof- 

 feffed of a tobacco-wheel, which is a very 

 fimple machine, they fpin the leaves, after 

 they are properly cured, into a twift of any 

 Cze they think fit, and having folded it into 

 rolls of about twenty pounds weight each, 

 they lay it by for ufe. In this flate it will 

 keep for feveral years, and be continually 

 improving, as it every hour grows milder. 

 When they have occafion to ufe it, they 

 take off fuch a length as they think necef- 

 fary, which, if defigned for fmoking, they 

 cut into fmall pieces, for chewing into 

 longer, as choice direds j if they intend to 

 make fnuff of it they take a quantity from 

 the roll, and laying it in a room where a fire 

 is kept, in a day or two it will become dry, 

 and being rubbed on a grater will produce a 

 genuine fnuff. Thofe, in more improved 

 regions, who like their fnuff fcented, may 

 apply to it fuch odoriferous waters as they 

 can procure, or think moft pleafing. 



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