WHY IT SHOULD BE GROWN. 9 



tobacco is gi'own, foreign tobacco of a superior 

 quality is imported to mix with the home 

 gi'owth and pi-oduce a more approved flavour ; 

 this would certainly be the case in England also, 

 and the price of tobacco being greatly reduced, 

 the consumption consequently much increased 

 (as in Germany and other European countries, 

 where, the taxation being low, the consumption 

 is relatively much larger than our own), and a 

 considei-able quantity imported as well — the 

 imported, of course, retaining a heavy tax — the 

 Government could be no loser in its revenue, 

 and, by indirect means, would certainly be a 

 gainer by the new regime. On taking into con- 

 sideration, as Brodigan suggests, the saving of 

 freight, commission, insurance, and shipping, 

 added to the advantage of having the article at 

 hand and readily convertible into money on the 

 spot, we natives of Great Bi-itain and Ireland 

 ought to be able to produce tobacco thirty or 

 forty per cent, cheaper than that which we 

 import fi'om foreign climes. 



" By this means," says Jonathan Carver 

 (1779), alluding to the growth of tobacco at 

 home, " the revenue, which has been so greatly 

 diminished by the unhappy divisions between 

 Great Britain and the Colonies, will be in a 

 srreat measui-e restored. The duties to be col- 



