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the case, and considerable damage will be occasioned by it. When 

 they are found to heat too much ; that is, when the heat exceeds a 

 moderate glowing warmth, part of the weight by which they are 

 pressed must be taken away; and the cause being removed, the 

 effect will cease. This is called the second, or last, sweating; 

 and, when completed, which it generally will be about the time 

 just mentioned, the leaves may be stripped from the stalks for use. 

 Many, however, omit this last sweating. 



When the leaves are stripped from the stalks, they are to be 

 tied up in bunches or hands, and kept in a cellar or other damp 

 place; though if not handled in dry weather, but only during a 

 rainy season, it is of little consequence in what part of the house 

 or barn they are laid up. At this period the tobacco is thoroughly 

 cured, and as proper for manufacturing as that imported from the 

 colonies. 



Tobacco is made up into rolls by the inhabitants of the interior 

 parts of America, by means of a machine called a tobacco-wheel. 

 With this machine they spin the leaves after they are cured, into 

 a twist of any size they think fit ; and having folded it into rolls 

 of about twenty pounds each, they lay it by for use. In this 

 state it will keep for several years, and be continually improving, 

 as it always grows milder. The Illinois usually form it into car- 

 rots ; which is done by laying a number of leaves, when cured, on 

 each other, after the ribs have been taken out, and rolling them 

 round with packthread till they become cemented together. These 

 rolls commonly measure about eighteen or twenty inches in length, 

 and nine round in the middle part. 



IBauhin. Long. Lobel Gregory. 



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