64 TOBACCO ; ITS HISTORY. 



and often forbidden, while snuffing is expensive 

 and inconvenient, and less perfectly satisfies the 

 narcotic appetite. If the weed must be used, 

 therefore, the form of chewing is more excusable 

 in the sailor. Pigtail is, I believe, the favourite 

 form for that purpose. 



In some of the southern and western states of 

 North America, chewing, to an offensive extent, 

 prevails ; and in Iceland, according to Madame 

 PfeifFer, tobacco is chewed and snuffed " with the 

 same infatuation as it is smoked in other coun- 

 tries." The traveller in northern Sweden may 

 have observed the hunde, who accompanies or 

 drives his post-horses, putting a large pinch of 

 snuff from time to time into his mouth; thus 

 applying to the wrong organ, as he conceives, the 

 finely powdered leaf. An Icelander applies the 

 snuff to his nose, but in a peculiar manner. 



" Most of the peasants, and even many of the priests, 

 have no proper snuffbox, but only a box made of bone, 

 and shaped like a powder-flask. When they take snuff 

 they throw back the head, insert the point of the flask in 

 the nose, and shake a dose of snuff into it. They then, 

 with the greatest amiability, offer it to their neighbour — 



