CHAPTER V. 
TOBACCO IN EUROPE. (CONTINUED.) 
~~ EANDER in his work “ Tobacologia,” (1622) gives 
a list of the various kinds of tobacco then used and 
where they were cultivated, among them are the 
following well known now as standard varieties of 
tobacco: Brazilian, St. Domingo, Orinoco, Virginia, and 
Trinidad ‘tobacco. Fairholt says of the latter that it was 
most popular in England and is frequently named by early 
authors.* Tobacco when prepared for us was made into 
long rolls or large balls which often answered for the 
tobacconist’s sign. What we now call cut tobacco was not 
as popular then as roll. Smokers carried a roll of tobacco, 
a knife and tinder to ignite their tobacco. At the close of 
the Sixteenth Century tobacco was introduced into the East. 
In Persia and Turkey where at first its use was opposed by 
the most cruel torture it gained at length the sanction and 
approval of even the Sultan himself. Pallas gives the fol- 
lowing account in regard to its first introduction into Asia: 
“In Asia, and especially in China, the use of tobacco for 
smoking is more ancient than the discovery of the New 
World, I too scarcely entertaina doubt. Among the Chinese, 
and among the Mongol tribes who had the most intercourse 
with them, the custom of smoking is so general, so frequent, 
and become so indispensable a luxury; the tobacco purse 
affixed to their belt, so necessary an article of dress; the 
form of the pipes from which the Dutch seem to have taken 
the model of theirs so original; and, lastly the preparation of 
the yellow leaves, which are merely rubbed to pieces and 
* Neander says that Varinas tobacco was iM 
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