122 TOBACCO. 



or else resolve to live in a perpetual torment. 



Have you not reason, then, to be ashamed, and to 

 forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, 

 so foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in 

 the right use thereof? — a custom loathsome to the 

 eye, hateful to the nose, dangerous to the lungs, 

 and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest 

 resembling the Stygian smoke of the pit that is 

 bottomless ? " 



w See the works of the most high and mighty 

 Prince James, by the grace of God, King of Great 

 Britain, 1616." * 



"We find recorded four years after this Counter- 

 blast, a remarkable fact, viz. : that in 1620, The 

 London Company exported to the Colony at 

 Jamestown ninety poor, but respectable women, 

 who were sold to the planters at the rate, one to 

 each, of a hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco 

 worth sixty cents a pound, the value of a wife 

 being thus estimated at seventy-two dollars. The 

 following year, another batch of wives was sent 

 over and sold at a slight advance. 



The tobacco policy of the Bay State Colony 

 was entirely different. 



When the Puritans came to Boston in 1630, it 

 was under the following instructions. 



" We specially desire you to take care that no 

 tobacco be planted by any of the planters under 

 your government, unless it be some small quantity 

 for mere necessity, and for physic, and that the same 

 be taken privately by ancient men, and none other, 



