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formerly been employed upon the tobacco plantations 

 in America ; 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 met with less 

 favourable circumstances. Their tobacco was publicly 

 burned, and themselves severely fined and imprisoned. 

 Penalties, it was said, were paid to the amount of 

 £30,000.* In Scotland it was successfully cultivated 

 during the American war in the neighbourhood of 

 Kelso, Jedburg, and a few other places, and succeeded 

 so well that the produce of thirteen acres at Crailing 

 realised £114 at the low rate of four pence a pound, 

 which only was allowed to be charged for it to Govern- 

 ment, to whom only by Act of parliament were the cul- 

 tivators allowed to sell the leaf, or they might have 

 obtained treble the price. The Act of the 19 Geo. :> 

 permitted Ireland to grow tobacco free of duty for 

 home consumption ; but it was never cultivated there 

 to any great extent, and in 1828 its cultivation was 

 entirely prohibited. It was a piece of jocularity among 

 the lower classes in Ireland, about a century ago when 

 transportation to " His Majesty's plantations in North 

 America " was a punishment, to term it " being sent to 

 His Majesty's tobacco manufactory." 



The pipe may be useful to the Sportsman; for Dr. 

 Forster, in his Kalendar of the Months, says when 

 tobacco smoke hangs lazily in the air, scarcely moving, 

 and preserving a strong aroma, " it is almost an 



* Brodigan, Treatise on (he Tobacco Plant. 



