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was formed by adding the leaves to each other, and 

 tightly compressing them as the wheel revolved, a roll 

 consisting of very many yards was then formed ; the 

 tobacco roll therefore became the favourite sign of 

 the tobacconist. The process of this manufacture is 

 exhibited in our cut from the shop-bill of " Benjamin 

 Parkes, at the Cross, Worcester," temp. Geo. I. 



Sometimes this kind of tobacco was twisted in the 

 manner of coarse cord, into a thick ball larger than a 

 man's head, which formed a stock from which to " cut 

 and come again." 



During the reign of William the Third tobacco met 

 with a patronage almost universal. Pipes grew larger 

 then, and ruled by a Dutchman, all England smoked 

 in peace. Misson, in his Memoirs of Travels over 

 England (1697), notes " this perpetual use of tobacco," 

 among men and women, particularly in country places ; 

 and he thinks that this " makes the generality of 

 Englishmen so taciturn, so thoughtful and so melan- 

 choly ; " but as if he agreed with Ben Jonson's Master 

 Stephen, that " your melancholy is ever the breeder of 

 your excellent wit," he adds " Tobacco not only breeds 



