TOBACCO LEAVES 



the first are cut the ordinary briar pipes, 

 which have bowl and stem at right angles ; 

 " releve " blocks are cut into a shape for 

 hanging pipes, and " Belgian " blocks, for 

 which there is but small demand, are 

 shaped to fashion into pipes which have 

 bowl and stem at an obtuse angle. The 

 minimum size of " Marseillaise " blocks is 

 about three inches long, two inches thick, 

 and one and a half inches broad. 



The Calabrian blocks, selected at Leg- 

 horn and exported thence, seem to be in 

 favour with the trade, as they remain so 

 long on the dealer's hands that they would 

 be almost certain to split before export if 

 they were defective. A Leghorn dealer 

 who does his own cutting in Calabria has 

 first to send the roots by wagon to his 

 workshops, where they are boiled and cut, 

 thence again by wagon to the seacoast, 

 where they are placed in lighters for ship- 

 ment to Leghorn. At Leghorn they are 



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