VARIETIES OF SNUFF. 



209 



per lb., s. cl. 



Fine English Rappee 3 6 



High-flavoured Coarse do. ... 3 



Ordinary English Bran 2 6 



Carrot Rappee 4 



Romano's Hollande 4 



Best Dunkerque Rappee ... 3 6 



Macabao S 



Scotch 2 



Fine do ". 3 



Scholten's Best Rappee 6 



Bolongaro's St. Vincent 4 



John's Lane 2 



Spanish Bran 6 



Common Scotch 1 



Fine Irish 2 



per lb., s. d. 



Rappee Bergamot 2 



Low Rappee 1 



Plain Scotch 2 



Natural English Rappee 3 



High-flavoured do 3 



Cephalic 5 



St. Domingo 6 



Brazil Imitated 5 



Best Brazil 24 



Second do 20 



Third do 16 



Best Spanish 10 



Second do 8 



Best Havannah 6 



Common do. * 4 



The Cephalic snuff mentioned in the previous list 

 was one of those compounds of herbs, &c, put forth 

 like " Grimstone's Eye Snuff," and extensively bought 

 toward the end of last century, from a belief in its 

 efficacy in freeing the head of bad humour, and im- 

 parting clearness in vision, in which it was imagined to 

 be " most sovereign." The inventor of this " cephalic 

 and ophthalmic snuff" published in 1722 a pamphlet 

 on its virtues, in which he assures us, that " the 

 Virginia tobacco from which this tobacco is prepared, 

 being here divested of its malignant ill qualities, and 

 strengthened in its good ones, will, when taken in 

 snuff, answer the desirable ends and intentions of 



* Another trader of the period thus notes his wares : *' John 

 at the Highlander and Black Boy in Threadneedle Street, London, makes 

 and sells the best Scotch snuff, plain and scented St. Domingo, Dutch and 

 Strasbourg, Hoxton and all other sorts of Rappee, Spanish, Seville, Ha- 

 vanna, Brazil, Portugal, and Bergamot ; Aloe, Pigtail, and Mild Tobacco ; 

 with all sorts of perfumer's goods, wholesale and retail." 



