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forward a small distance, so that the next fol- 

 lowing cut may be distant some small space 

 from the former. Tt depends upon the number 

 of cogs in the wheel at the end of the underlying 

 screw whether this distance, and consequently 

 the diameter of the fibres of tobacco, shall be 

 greater or smaller.* 



A considerable quantity of water in the 

 " liquoring " tends to darken the leaf ; and the 

 lighter colour of " Returns " owes this quality 

 to a regulation of the moisture as well as the 

 pressure — both which combine to darken the 

 colour of Shag, the strongest kind of tobacco. 



The other names of the various kinds of to- 

 bacco were given to them from the places whence 

 they come, or other circumstances, without refer- 

 ence to quality. " Oronoko " is so called from 

 the South American river of that name. 



K'naster, or C'naster, was originally the name 

 given in America to baskets of rushes or cane, 

 in which they packed the tobacco sent to Europe ; 

 and hence the designation of " Kanaster tobacco." 



* Dodd's * British Manufactures,' Tobacco. 



