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When, or in what manner this plant was 

 introduced into the oriental nations is uncer- 

 tain, although it is at prefent in general ufe 

 among them. Conliderable quantities of it 

 are likewife cultivated in the Levant, the 

 coafts of Greece and the Archipelago, in 

 the ifland of Malta and in Italy. 



Tobacco is termed, by botanifts, Nicoti- 







ana ; and is arranged by them as a genus of 

 the Pentandria Monogynia clafs of plants. 

 It is fometimes ufed medicinally; but being 

 very powerful in its operations, this rnuft 

 be done with great caution. The moft com- 

 mon ufes of it are, either as a fternutatory 

 when taken by way of fhuff, as a mafticatory 

 by chewing it in the mouth, or as an efflu- 

 via by fmoking it; and when ufed with 

 moderation is not an unhealthy amufement, 

 whether it replenifhes the humble pouch of 

 the ruftic, or the golden box of the cour- 

 tier. 



Before pipes were invented, it was ufually 



fmoked in fegars, and they are ftill in ufe 



B ^ among 



