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or Trees, of an open Pore growing low, 

 we fhall find their Juice has fubtile Parts : 

 So have all Vines, whether the Grape Vine, 

 or Briony, or a Smilax, or the like. If a 

 Gummous Plant or Tree, that grows low, 

 and clofe Pored, it abounds with acid Spirits, 

 as Lignum Vit(Z^ &c. if it grow tall, and 

 be open Pored, it abounds with a fubtile 

 Volatile Spirit, as your Firrs, and the Tur- 

 pentine Tree. But to infifl; no further here- 

 in, than as this may be applicable to the 

 prefent Difcourfe : For I have obferved, that 

 that which is called Pine-wood Land, tho' 

 it be a fandy Soil, even the Sweet-fcented 

 Tobacco that grows thereon, being large 

 and porous, agreeable to Aranoko Tobacco ^ 

 it fmoaks as courfly as Aranoko : Wherefore 

 ^tis, that I believe the Microfcope might 

 make notable Difcoveries towards the know- 

 ledge of good Tobacco :For the clofer theCom- 

 pofition of the Leaf, the better the Tobacco ; 

 and therefore the Planters and Merchants 

 brag of the Subftance of their Tobacco ^ 

 which word, did they always take it in a 

 true Sence, for the Solid nefs, and not miftakc 

 it for the Thicknefs, it would be more con- 

 fonant to a true Obfervation : for as I faid 

 ^ of the Pine-wood Tobacco, fome of it is 

 thick and not Solid, and differs from the 

 beft Tobacco, as Buff does from Tann'd 

 Leather \ fo that if the Tobacco be found 

 and not Rotten, you may give a great guefs 

 at the goodnefs of Tobacco, when you weigh 

 the Hogftieads, before you fee them : For if 

 an equal care be taken in the packing of them 

 the beft: Tobacco will weigh the heavieft, 



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