1 6 TlMEHRI. 
Sugar, liquorice, or alcohol, are used in the manufacture 
of tobacco for the purpose of getting rid of certain 
organic materials, the combustion of which would yield 
an obje6tionable flavour, and in some parts of India the 
pulp of the Cassia fistula, which is not uncommon in 
this colony, is used for the purpose. 
Dr. WATT considers climate to be a most important 
condition affecting the quality of tobacco, which has 
not hitherto been found apart from tropical and semi- 
tropical countries. The West Indies have always been 
famous for producing a tobacco richer in aromatic 
principle than that grown in most other countries, and this 
is due to their warm and moist climate. All attempts at 
producing a leaf of the peculiar quality of the Havana 
variety, have hitherto failed elsewhere than in the West 
Indies. 
The advantages which these colonies possess in being 
the owners of a good raw material, are dealt with by Dr. 
Watt, who holds out much encouragement for this 
industry. He says that it is hardly creditable to Britons 
over the sea, that they should be so largely dependent on 
Manila and Singapore for supplies of cigar wrappers, 
and that the best cigars in Britain should be of foreign 
origin. 
Jamaica, however, has done much to rival Cuba in this 
respe6l, and Trinidad cigars, which Dr. WATT says were 
made of tobacco as good in quality as that of Havana, were 
largely patronized at the Colonial Exhibition. It may be a 
reproach to us in British Guiana, where pipe tobacco to 
the extent of £16,000 sterling yearly, is imported, to be 
dependent on the United States for an article, the raw 
material of which grows here like a weed. It is true that 
