258 SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



It was Portuguese snuff: in considerable favour. The 

 Orangery, Bergamotte, and Jassamena, took their 

 names from the scents they indicate as adopted to 

 flavour them. During the reign of Anne, snuff-taking 

 increased to a great extent, and so did the varieties of 

 mixtures, flavours, and names. Chambers, in his 

 Enclyclopsedia of 1727, says : " The kinds of snuff and 

 their several names are infinite, and new ones are 

 invented ; so that it would be difficult, not to say 

 impossible, to give a detail of them. We shall only sa}-, 

 that there are three grand sorts, the first granulated, 

 the second an impalpable powder, and the third the 

 bran, or coarse part remaining after sifting a second 

 sort." We may here note a few of the principal old 

 court favourites : Etrenne obtained its name from the 

 custom of presenting Louis XV. with choice specimens 

 of snuff, as a New Year's offering from the various manu- 

 facturers : his selected choice being adopted as the 

 fashionable stimulant for the noses of courtiers for the 

 year. Bureau is a snuff of the same character, and 

 was one of the selected favourites of the sovereign, 

 which being of peculiarly good flavour, achieved a less 

 fleeting popularity, and being pretty generally used in 

 the cabinet of the politician, became known by the 

 French name thereof. 



A great impetus to the habit of snuff-taking was 

 given in 1702. The fleet under the command of Sir 

 George Book captured at Port Saint Mary near Cadiz, 

 several thousand barrels of very choice Spanish snuff, 

 along with the plunder. On returning by Vigo 



