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pored, it abounds with acid Spirits, as Lignum Fita, &c. 
if it grow tall, anjd be open pored, it abounds with a 
fubtile volatile Spirit, as your Firrs, and the Turpentine 
Tree. But to infift no further herein, than as this may 
be applicable to the prefent Difcourfe : for I have obfer- 
ved, that that which is called Pine-wood Land, tho' it 
be a fandy SoyJ, 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 knowledge of good To- 
bacco : for the clofer the Competition of the Leaf, the 
better the Tobacco ; and therefore the Planters and Mer- 
chants brag of the Subftance of their Tobacco ; which 
word, did they always take it in a true fence, for the 
Solidnels, and not miftake it for the Thicknefs, it would 
be more confonant to a true Obfervation : for as I faid of 
the Pine-wood Tobacco, fome of it is thick and not fo- 
lid, and differs from the bed 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 good- 
nefi of Tobacco, when you weigh the Hogfheads, before 
you fee them : for if an equal care be taken in the Pack- 
ing of them, the bed Tobacco will weigh the heavieft, 
and pack the clofeft. Now I faid, that the Sweet- (cented 
Tobacco mod in vogue, which was moft famed for its 
Scent, w 7 as that that grew on fandy Land ; which is 
true, if you would fmoak it whilft new, or whilft only 
two or three Years old ; but if you keep the ftifFLand 
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 ftiff 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 itfelf, and become vola- 
tile; but the Pine-wood Land having little of the Nitro- 
Sulphurious 
