112 POPULAR USE OF TOBACCO, 
then put into the pipe, so peculiar, that we cannot possibly 
derive all this from America by way of Europe; especially 
as India, (where the habit of smoking is not so general,) inter- 
venes between Persia and China. May we not expect to find 
traces of this custom in the first account of the Voyages of 
the Portugese and Dutch to China? To investigate this 
subject, I have indeed the inclination but not suflicient 
leisure.” 
We find by research that smoking was the most general 
mode of using tobacco in England when first introduced. 
In France the habit of snuffing was the most popular mode 
and to this day the cus- 
tom is more general 
than elsewhere. In the 
days of the Regency 
snuff-taking had attained 
more general popularity 
than any other mode of 
using the plant leaves; 
the clergy were fond of 
the “dust” and carried 
the most expensive snuff 
boxes, while many loved 
the pipe and indulged in 
tobacco-smoking. The 
old vicar restored to his living enjoyed a pipe when seated 
in his chair musing on the subject of his next Sunday’s dis- 
course, “with a jug of sound old ale and a huge tome of 
sound old divinity on the table before him, for the occasional 
refreshment as well of the bodily as the spiritual man.” 
The cultivation of tobacco in Europe was begun in Spain 
and Portugal. Its culture in these kingdoms as well as by 
their colonies brought to the crown enormous revenues. In 
1626, its culture began in France and is still an important 
product. A little later it began to be cultivated in Germany 
where it had already been used as a favorite luxury. From 
this time its use and cultivation extended to various parts of 
Europe. The Persecutors whether kings, popes, poets, or 
courtiers at length gave up their opposition while many of 
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