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This 1873 engraving depicts New Orleans harbor 

 as an obviously busy commercial port. 



Du Pratz further wrote that after the leaves were 

 stripped from the stalk, he experimented by tying them 

 into bundles, wrapping them in a cloth and letting 

 them alone for 24 hours. 



"This tobacco turned so black and waxy," he said, 

 "that it could not be rasped [grated for use in smoking] 

 in less than a year; but then it had a substance and 

 flavor so much the more agreeable, as it never affected 

 the head; and I sold it for double the price of the 

 common." 



History records that the planters of the Natchez 



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