CTstom of smoking, or inhaling 
the hot vapor of a pernicious 
weed, a narcotic poison. We 
ought at least to borrow from 
them the mode of making To- 
bacco milder and less perni- 
cious, and above all fragrant 
instead of stinking: they sel- 
dom smoke pure tobacco, but 
always mix it with fragrant or 
milder substances. 
Whoever smokes pure tobac- 
co habitually, is a selfish vi- 
cious man, particularly if he 
throws the stinking smoke into 
the lungs of whoever chances 
to be near him ; which no one 
has a right to do as it is a real 
nuisance, as much so as if a 
man was to throw dust or 
brimstone smoke into the noses 
of his neighbors. 
Therefore let them adopt at 
least fragrant tobacco, the to- 
bacconists who will devise and 
introduce them will probably 
make fortunes and deserve well 
of mankind, as it will lessen 
the evil done to themselves and 
to others by smokers. Fra- 
grant cigars might thus be 
made better than Havana 
Those are made fragrant by 
the leaves -of Fiqueria or of 
Liatris odoratissima* 
H e r e i s a red pe f o r m aki n g 
Fragrant Tobacco for the pipe 
such as used by the Indians of 
Canada, l-3d tobacco leaves, 
one third leaves of red willow , 
Salix purpurea, and one third 
shumac leaves. 
The leaves of the sweet gum 
or Liquid-amber, make a very 
fragrant tobacco by themsel ves 
m mixt ? and they can be rolled 
in cigars. Many other leaves 
are equally good, such as sweet 
fern, wintergreen, and many 
more which 1 shall indicate if 
any disposition is evinced to 
leave off the strong stinking 
tobacco. This fragrant substi- 
tute could be afforded so cheap 
that the present smokers would 
no longer be compelled to 
smoke coarse rank cigars. 
, €. S. XL 
151. Huge Water Volcano . 
One of the highest volcano 
throwing water instead office, 
is found near Gitatimala. It 
is a perfect cone 14,500 feet 
high and 72 miles in circuit. 
Dunn who ascended it in 1828 
says that the crater which once 
threw a flood of water, is a 
rocky concave hollow’, only 
140 by 120 yards; it has now 
mosses and grasses in it. The 
Spanish call it Volcan de Jgua 
or water volcano. The I mlian 
village of S. Maria is 7500 ft 
high on it. It is divided in 4 
regions. 1. Cultivated or tro- 
pical till 9000 feet. ■ 2 Woody 
region or forest of oaks, with 
canes and the rare tree Cheiros* 
iemon , 3, Naked region of 
grasses. 4. Of scrub by Pines 
crowning the top, where there 
is a sublime and extensive view, 
the tw o oceans Atlantic and Pa- 
cific can be seen from it The 
thermometer stood at 42 deg. 
w hen it was 72 degrees at the 
base' 
It was called U-hatez>-mal-ha 
by the Chontals, meaning the 
mountain throwing water , and 
has thus been known as such 
