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trader much power of adulteration, or at least of mix- 

 tures of bad and inferior tobacco. It is not unusual to 

 save the sweepings of tobacco-shops and warehouses 

 for the purpose of mixing in snuff. Of course in all 

 such establishments tobacco is scattered and falls upon 

 the floors in the warehouse ; portions of leaf adhere to 

 the shoes, which are scraped in receptacles for the 

 purpose; it is never wasted, but is dried and ground 

 down with all extraneous matter, to put into dark 

 coloured highly scented snuffs. This cannot be done 

 with light-coloured pungent snuffs, like high-dried 

 Scotch, which is made from the central stalk of the 

 tobacco, cut fine and ground, and is one of the purest 

 snuffs manufactured. 



Bapfiee may be considered as the parent of all other 

 snuffs : its name smacks of a genuine origin. Carotte, 

 in the same way, carries the mind back by its name to 

 the early part of the seventeenth century, when tobacco 

 was rolled into the carrot form, and the end of the lump 

 rasped as the snuff was wanted; according to the 

 arrangement already described on p. 249, and further 

 illustrated in our cut of the decorated ivory rasper, 

 p. 245, one of which was an essential piece of fur- 

 niture to the pocket of the beau, or the boudoir 

 of the belle, in the clays of the Grande Monarque. 

 The Carotte was sometimes steeped in wine or sweet 

 liqueurs to give it flavour. 



Palillio, mentioned in Southerne's play, quoted in 

 a previous page, was properly termed pulvilio, and is 

 frequently mentioned by other authors of that era. 



