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10. 

 TOBACCO, 



SOME YEARS ago (moftly in the year 

 1782) large patches of tobacco, together 

 amounting to feveral acres, were grown in 

 this Vale : and in the Vale of York a flili 

 greater quantity was cultivated. 



In this Diftridt it did not excite the notice 

 of legal authority : in the richer parts of the 

 Vale, where the grcatcft quantity was raifcd, 

 it was cured and manufactured by a man who 

 had formerly been employed upon the to- 

 bacco-plantations in America; and who not 

 only cured it properly, but gave it the proper 

 cut, and finally prepared it for the pipe. 



But in the Vale of York, the cultivators 

 of it met with Ids favourable circumfhnces. 

 Their tobacco was publicly burnt, and them- 

 felvcs fevcrely fined and imprifoned. Penal- 

 ties, 



