CHEWING TOBACCO. 



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"burnt out. for the best part of a day, is no uncommon 

 thing in Bavaria. It would astonish the weak minds 

 of tee-totallers and tobacco-haters could they take a 

 seat for a day in any Lustgarten of this most philoso- 

 phic nation. After their clear elucidation of the fatal 

 consequences of both habits, it is strange that any 

 Germans are to be found alive after thirty years 

 of age. 



The practice of chewing tobacco, recorded to have 

 been used by the Indians to stay hunger in travel, 

 appears to have had no general popularity. Soldiers 

 and sailors adopted it from the same reasons, and 

 from the inconvenience of using 

 the pipe. It was sanctioned bj r the 

 custom of General Monk at the 

 Restoration, and it was usual with 

 gentlemen to sport silver basins to 

 spit in, something after the Ameri- 

 can fashion, as represented in an old 

 snuff-box, of the time of James I., 

 published by the Societ} r of Anti- 

 quaries,* and copied in our engrav- 

 ing, from which it appears that this 

 questionable custom was " done 

 with a grace," if we may judge from 

 the affected attitude of the cavalier. 



Neander, the Dutch physician, whose work Tabaco- 

 log'ia, published in 1022, we have already quoted, notes 



* Archseologia, Vol. 23. Ben Jonson, in his Every Man Out of his 

 Humour, notes the custom. 



