TOBACCO IN SONG AND 

 STORY. 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



WALTER RALEIGH'S 

 name will always, among the 

 English-speaking races, be 

 linked with that of Tobacco. 

 Raleigh it was who, in the 

 sixteenth century, found tobacco en the 

 plantations of Virginia, and introduced 

 it into England and Ireland, along with 

 the potato. He planted both upon his 

 estate at Gongall, Ireland, the home 

 presented to him by the auburn-haired, 



