MANUFACTUKE. 41 



In the tobacco warehouses at the London 

 Docks may be seen ranges, tiers, or alleys of 

 hogsheads, whose number is immense. Passage 

 after passage occurs, each several hundred feet 

 in length, and only wide enough to admit the 

 necessary traffic : all parallel one to another, and 

 all bordered on both sides with close compact 

 masses of hogsheads, generally two in height. 

 The whole are under one roof, or rather one 

 succession of roofs ; and there are sometimes 

 deposited there as many as 20,000 hogsheads, 

 averaging 1200 lbs. of tobacco in each. 



Those who are unacquainted with the Customs 

 and Excise regulations may wonder why this 

 enormous quantity of tobacco is kept in one 

 place. The reason will be evident when the 

 duty on tobacco is remembered. This duty is 

 not demanded as Ions; as the tobacco remains at 

 the docks, or rather in the warehouses. In this 

 safe-keeping it is said to be in bond, under the 

 State, and cannot be removed until the duty is 

 paid. If by any casualty the whole or a portion 

 of a liogshead of tobacco becomes injured pre- 

 vious to its arrival at the docks, the owner would 



