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clianged in both corporeal and mental faculties — we can- 

 not fail to be enfeebled in body and mind, and become 

 a deteriorated race. \\ once travelled with a gentleman 

 from South America, who first filled his nostrils with 

 snuflF, which he prevented falling out, by stuffing shag 

 tobacco after it, and this he termed "plugging" — then 

 put in each cheek a coil of pigtail tobacco, which he 

 named " quidding," in this country called " chewing : " 

 lastly, he lit a Havannah cigar, which he put into his 

 mouth; and thus smoked and chewed, puffing at one 

 time the smoke of the cigar, and at another time squirt- 

 ing the juice from his mouth, as so graphically described 

 by Dickens in the boat story, on the way to the Far 

 West. This gentleman was as thin as a razor, with an 

 olive-colored countenance, and frightfully nervous. The 

 preceding is neither a caricature, nor an exaggerated ac- 

 count of the fearful extent to which the use of tobacco 

 is carried — not merely in Europe, as we know, but, as 

 there is every reason to fear, in every quarter of the' 

 globe where it either grows, or is unhappily conveyed. 



38. There can be no doubt, from what has occurred 

 in the war just ended, that had the Turks never indulged 

 in the vicious habit of smoking tobacco, they would not 

 have required the assistance of the French, Sardinians, 

 and British. They would have been as powerful as in 

 the days of the Sultans Othman, Orchan, Amurath the 

 First, and Bajazet, and would have sent such a message 

 through Menschikoff to the Czar Nicholas, as the Sul- 

 tan Bajazet said to the Count de Nevers, of France, when 

 taken prisoner after his celebrated ufisuccessful caralry 

 cJiarge (like that at Balaklava) near Nf.cropcJis. 



