RASPING TOBACCO. 



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Inventions (circa 1700), we get this recipe: " To make 

 snuff, and how to cleanse it. Put your tobacco-dust in 

 a strong linnen cloth, soak your tobacco-dust in a pail 

 of water, only once in twenty-four hours ; then let the 

 water out, and squeeze the snuff well in the cloth, then 

 dry it on wicker hurdles in the sun, stirring it care- 

 fully whilst it's a drying ; being dry, pour sweet water 

 over it, as rose-water, or any other you like best, and 

 make it as a paste ; dry it again, and pour more rose- 

 water to it, and dry it again, and it's fit to receive what 

 smell you please. Mint dry'd and powdered, makes a 

 pleasant snuff; or some rose-leaves and cloves dis- 

 tilled and powdered, and put to your snuff; or what 

 herb or flower you please." 



The shop-bills of the old manufacturers (temp. Geo. 

 I.) give us representations of these modes of manu- 

 facturing snuff.* We find 

 the curious engraving here 

 given, on that of John L. 

 Hullier, who calls himself 

 " French manufacturer of 

 Rappee Snuff, formerly in- 

 spector-general of all the 

 manufactures of snuff in 

 France," and who then lived 

 " at the corner of Little 

 Newport Street, by Castle 

 Street, Leicester fields, London." The bill is sur- 



* I am indebted for my copies of this, and all others from shop bills, to 

 the curious collection of J. J. A. Fillinham, Esq. 



