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and Pack the clofeft. Now I faid, that the 

 Sweet-fcented Tobacco moft in vogue, which 

 was moft fam'd for its Scent, was that that 

 grew on fandy Land which is true, if you 

 would Smoak it whilft new, or whilft only 

 two or three Years Old ; but if you keep 

 the ftifF Land Tobacco, which is generally a 

 Tobacco of great Subftance five or fix Years, 

 It will much excel : For tho' the fandy Land 

 Tobacco abound with a Volatile Nitre at 

 firft:, yet the ftifi-" Land Tobacco abounds 

 with a greater quantity of Nitre, only that 

 it is lock'd up in its Oyl at firft, and requires 

 more time to extricate it felf, and become 

 Volatile but the Pine-wood Land having 

 little of the Nitro-Sulphurious Particles, 

 neither is, nor ever will make any thing of 

 a rich Smoak. Difcourfing hereof fome days 

 fince, to a Gentleman of good Obfervation, 

 that has been verfed with Maulting, he af- 

 fured me, to back this my Suppofition, or 

 Hypothefis, he had obferved, that Barly that 

 grew on ftifF Ground, requir'd more time 

 confiderably to Mellow, and com.e to per- 

 fedion, than that that grew on light Land, 

 Having proceeded thus far to fpeak of To* 

 bacco, I lhall add one or two thinr,s more. 

 The Planters differ in their Judgments about 

 the Time of Planting, or Pitching their 

 Crops : Some are for Pitching their Crops 

 Very early, others la te, without any diftinfti- 

 on of the Nature of the Soils and 'tis from 

 the different Effeds that they find, in that, 

 fometimes early, fometimes the late Planting 

 fucceeds : But they have not the Reafon to 

 judge of the Caufe, to confider the Accidents 



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