MANUFACTURE. 59 



Snuff. 



In the price-currents of the Trade we tind the 

 item " Stalks, duty paid," varying in price from 

 2s. lid. to 35. Ad. These stalks are the same pre- 

 viously described as being removed from the leaf 

 before making the cigar, and they are used in 

 the manufacture of snuff; but every portion of 

 the leaf is used for the purpose in the different 

 kinds of the article. The purest kind of snuff 

 is " Scotch," which is made either entirely from 

 stalks, or stalks with a small proportion of leaf. 

 The " high-dried," such as '' Welsh " and 

 " Lundyfoot," owe their qualities chiefly to the 

 circumstance that they are dried so much as to 

 acquire a slight flavour of scorching. " Rappee," 

 and the darker snuffs, are made from the darker 

 and ranker leaves. A process of scenting too 

 has great influence on the flavour of the snufF, 

 since the manufacturer can introduce any kind 

 of scent, according to the taste of his customers. 

 " Prince's Mixture," among the low-priced snufFs, 

 and the interminable varieties of " fancy-snuffs," 

 owe no small part of their flavour to the kinds 



