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'I'obacco. 
THESSALONICA. 467 
plain : its cultivation employs the inhabitants of chap. 
three hundred villages there situate. Tobacco, 
for which the soil of Macedonia is particularly 
favourable, flourishes to the east and west of the 
banks of the Fardar, particularly over all Botticea, 
the district of antient Pella, where Itnigt, pro- 
nounced Yenige, is now situate, between the 
Lydias and Axius. But there are plantations of 
tobacco over all the country to the north of 
Salonica, and eastward as far as Cavallo; only 
that of Yenige bears the highest price. It is 
even preferred before the famous tobacco of 
Latakia in Syria, in consequence of its balsamic 
odour. The leaves of this kind of tobacco are 
very small : almost all of it is reserved for the 
use of the Grand Signior's seraglio: it is called 
Yenige Kara-su, and it sells as high as five or six 
piastres the oke^, whereas the price of other 
good tobacco does not exceed seventy pards. 
When it is mixed with the leaf of another kind 
of tobacco, growing also in the neighbourhood, 
and called Ptisi, it is said to exhale the fra- 
grance of violets; and on this account it is highly 
esteemed in the Turkish charems^. With regard 
(1) AccordiDg to Beaujour, the oke of Salonica is equivalent to fifty 
ounces, which makes the aversige price of this tobacco (reckoning 
twelve ounces to the pound) rather less than two shillings p^r pound. 
(2) Tableau du Coram, de la Grece, torn. I. p. 91. Puru, 1800. 
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