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rieties. Between the taste of the smoker who 

 w'ould rather not taste the weed itself, and that 

 of the Greenlander who luxuriates in its most 

 offensive juices — Harpy vis gula digna rapacihus 

 — there must be endless gradations — shades of 

 difference — nuances, as the French cleverly ex- 

 press the idea, varying according to the natural 

 state of the gustatory and olfactory. The 

 smoker of the mildest havannah by preference 

 cannot enjoy it more than does the smoker by 

 preference of k'naster, returns, or even shag, 

 through the medium of the pipe. Philosophic- 

 ally, we must contemplate the sum of sensations, 

 by whatever means produced. In fact, we 

 must — 



" Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find 

 Where nature moves, and rapture charms the mind." 



The Greenwich pensioner, to whom, in his 

 honoured retreat, you can make no present 

 more acceptable than an ounce of tobacco ; the 

 Dutchman in his swamps — that everlasting 

 memento of man's original fish-condition (ac- 

 cording to the ' Vestiges of Creation '), exhibit 

 to the mind the very perfection of human bliss 



