36 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



getting his 800 lbs. per acre, we may proceed to 

 calcalate what the product of each acre may- 

 fetch in the London market. The calculation 

 does not take into account the cost of production, 

 freight, &c. : — it merely shows the value it repre- 

 sents immediately before it begins to add to our 

 comforts and to the revenue. Taking the average 

 prices at present given, some kinds of tobacco 

 would figure as follows — " errors excepted." 



The reader will complete his ideas on the 

 subject by examining the following price-list of 

 Grant, Hodgson, and Co., brokers, for the be- 

 ginning of the present month, February, 1857 ; 

 remembering always that 35. 2d. is the duty to 

 be superadded on each lb. of tobacco, and 9^. Gd. 

 on cigars and any other form of the manufactured 

 article. This duty, of course, is the cause of its 



