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down and die in labor of the mighty plan he had conceived. 
At length, having occupied twelve good months in puffin 
and paddling, and talking and walking,—having traveled 
over all Holland, and even taken a peep into France and 
Germany,—having smoked five hundred and ninety-nine 
pipes and three hundred weight of the best Virginia 
tobacco,—my great-grandfather gathered together all that 
knowing and industrious class of citizens who prefer attend- 
ing to anybody’s business sooner than their own, and having 
pulled off his coat and five pair of breeches he advanced 
sturdily up and laid the corner-stone of the church, in the 
presence of the whole multitude,—just at the commence- 
ment of the thirteenth month.” 
He also alludes to Hudson whom he says was: 
“ A seafaring man of renown, who had learned to smoke 
tobacco under Sir Walter Raleigh, and is said to have been 
the first to introduce it into Holland, which gained him 
much popularity in that country, and caused him to find 
great favor in their High Mightinesses, the lords and states 
asia and also of the honorable West India Company. 
e was a short, square, brawny old gentleman, with a double 
chin, a mastiff mouth, and a broad copper nose, which was 
supposed in those days to have acquired its fiery hue from the 
constant neighborhood of his tobacco pipe. * * * As 
chiet mate’and favorite companion, the commander chose 
Master Robert Juet, of Limehouse, in England. By some 
his name has been spelled Chewit, ascribed to the circum- 
stance of his having been the first man that ever chewed 
tobacco. * * * * Under every misfortune he comforted. 
himself with a quid of tobacco, and the truly philosophical 
maxim, ‘that it will be all the same a hundred years hence!’” 
Further on he alludes to the attempt to subjugate New: 
Amsterdam to the British crown and the effect produced by 
the burghers lighting their pipes. “ When” he says “ Cap- 
tain Argol’s vessel hove in sight, the worthy burghers were 
seized with such a panic, that they fell to smoking their pipes 
with astonishing vehemence, insomuch that they quickly 
raised a cloud, which, combining with the surrounding woods 
and marshes, completely enveloped and concealed their 
beloved village; and overhung the fair regions of Pavonia :— 
so that the terrible Captain Argol passed on, totally unsus- 
picious that a sturdy little Dutch settlement lay snugly 
couched in the mud, under cover of all this pestilent vapor.” 
