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the various kinds of tobacco then used, which obtained 

 their names from the places where they were grown. 

 Thus, Brazilian, St. Domingo, Orinoco, Virginia, and 

 Trinidad tobacco, at once point to well known localities. 

 Of these, the last named was most popular in England, 

 and is frequently named by early authors. Thus the 

 song of the corporal and watch, in Beaumont and 

 Fletcher's play The Knight of Malta, has the lines: — 



" To thee a full pot, my little lanceprisado,* 

 And when thou hast done, a pipe of Trinidado." 



Amazonian tobacco came from the lands on the 

 border of the great river Amazon ; and Varinas, called 

 by Brathwait in his Smoaking Age (1617), Varina and 

 Varinian tobacco, is named from a town in Columbia, 

 still famed for its tobacco. f Cavendish was named 

 from the great captain, whose voyages made him 

 famous, and was originally cut up from a closely 

 pressed cake of the leaf, for the use of the smoker ; it 

 is still the most coarsely cut tobacco of all. Carotte 

 was a popular tobacco with Frenchmen, and was 

 formed into long thin rolls, sweetened with treacle, 

 and cut for smoking or chewing like the modern 

 pigtail ; it is represented on the table in our cut, 

 p. 57. Roll tobacco was formed in a continuous thin 

 rope of leaf, by aid of a wheel, as twine is made ; and 



* A lanceprisado is a lance-corporal, the lowest grade of military officer. 

 ' ' A leader or governor of half a file, and therefore is commonly called a 

 middleman, or captain over four." — Note in GifforcVs Massinger. 



+ A Paper of Tobacco, 1839. 





