NIC 
In the firft there is a variety which rifes aout five feet 
high; the ftalk does not branch fo much as that of the real 
plant ; the leaves are large and oval, about fifteen inches long, 
and two broad in the middle, but diminith gradually in fize to 
the top of the ftalk, and, with their bafe, half embrace it ; 3 
the flowers grow in clofer bunches than thofe of the ori- 
ite: they are fucceeded by fhort, oval, 
It flowers about the fame time with 
the fort from which it comes, and grows naturally in the 
woods of the ifland of Tob 
f fecond {pecies there are feveral varieties; as the 
great broad-leaved, in which the leaves are more than a foot 
and a half long, and a foot broad, their furfaces el rough 
and glutinous, and their bafes half embrace the 
nas — foil the ftalks are more than ten feet heh arid the 
r part di maller Lebrun which are terminated 
It flowers in 
’ s the fort = commonly rain ek to 
ng ae called Oronoko tobac 
And there is another Piarizit in which the ftalks feldom 
rife more than five or fix feet divide into more 
branches. The leaves are shone fen inches long, and three 
and a half broad, fmooth, acute, feffile; the flowers are 
aie larger, and of a brighter purple ee iour It flowers 
e time; and is called by. fome i {cented 
tobacco 
ear at the fame time with 
Thefe varieties are alfo all natives of America. 
The third fpecies has rifes with a 
Awe arker green, and o 
ace, 
longer footftalke. The flowers are of the fame fhape, bat 
1 3 fuch as are defigned 
for ornament fingly, and thle intended for ufe, in rows, 
any where, three feet afun watering as 
foon as planted, repeating it Sec vualle till the plants have 
got frefh ro 
The fecond {pecies may alfo be raifed by fowing the yaaa 
rm border in A out im the fam 
NIC 
The beds being a an well turned up with the hoe, 
the feed, on account of i nefs, i is mixed with afhes, an 
The beds 
fall, te fhould be watered two or three Pe. 
morning and“evening the plants muft be looked over, in 
order to ich fometimes invades the bud. 
are fit for cu 
and made in 
hele bundles are laid j in ce and covered with blankets. 
Care is taken not to overheat. them, for which reafon the 
heaps are laid open from time to time, and 
{pread abroad. This operation is repeated till no more 
heat is perceived in the heaps, and the tobacco is then ftowed 
in cafks for exportation. But in China, where the ufe of 
tobacco both in fnuff and for fmoaking is very general, 
buildings are not aguas neceflary, according to fir George 
Staunton, as they are in the Weft Indies, for curing it ; 
there being little pcprenfion of rain to injure the leaves 
when picked. They are hung on cords to dry without any 
3) the air, 
“Thefe forte, when cultivated for the purpofe of ornament, 
produce a fine e their leaves and flowers in the 
autumn, and alfo ‘afford much variet 
NICOYA, AR, in Gen graphy, a town of 
Mexico, in the province of Cofta Rica, ona a river which 
runs into the Pacific ocean. From hence the inhabitants 
ffe.d to Panama falt, honey, maize, wheat, fowls, and the 
purple juice of a fhell-fifh found in the bay of Salinas, about 
. of the town. The Spaniards have alto a pear 
fifhery ; 80 miles W. of Carthage. N. lat. 10° 36’. 
long. 85° so’. 
NICSAR, or Nixsar, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 
r St. 
ory 
1) 
into the 
akiffar. 
