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btought into England^ fomc will have Sir 
John Hawkins the firft, others Sir Fr^wci/ 
Drakes Mariners-, others again fay that 
one lAt.L^m inaployed by Sir Walter Kaw 
if i^fc brought it firft into England y all con- 
clude that Sir Walter Kaw high brought it 
jfiift in ufe. // '\s obferved thst no me kjnd 
cf Jorraign Commodity yieldeth greater ad- 
vantage to the fublick than tobacco^ it is ge- 
vcrally made the cornfkment of our emertain- 
mcm^ and hath made mpre Jlaves than Maho- 
met. There is three forts of it Marchan- 
table, the hift horfe Tibicco, hiving a 
broad long leaf piked at the end \ the ft- 
fond round pointed Tobacco \ third fwect 
(cenud Tobacco. Thcfc arc made up into 
Cane, leift)r bill-, there is little of it 
p'anred in Ncw-Er^gland^ neither have they 
kgined the right way of curing of if. It 
is fowen in Afril upon a bed of rich mould 
flfced, they make abed about three yards 
long, or more according to the ground they 
intend to plant, and a yard and a h-^If over> 
this they tread down hard, then they fow 
their feed upon it as thick as may be, and 
fih ime eanh uponit, then tread n down 
again as hard as polhble they can, when it 
haih gotten four or 1.x leaves, they remove 
it into the planting ground *, when it begins 
to bud [Qwards flooring, they crop off the 
