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PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

THE HISTORY, MEDICAL PROPERTIES,

AND

CULTIVATION

OF

TOBACCO.

BY JAMES JENNINGS, Esq.

Author of the "Family Cyclopædia," &c. &c.

Strong Labour got up; with his Pipe in his mouth,
He stoutly strode over the dale;

He lent new perfumes to the breath of the south,
On his back hung his wallet and flail.
Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician had lifted the latch.

"I'm an English pipe,

Deem'd worthy of each Briton's gripe,
Who, with my cloud-compelling aid,
Help our plantations and our trade,
And am when sober, and when mellow
An upright, downright honest fellow."

SMART.

SMART.

LONDON:

SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1830.

PREFACE.

THE general distress, under which so many of the industrious classes in Great Britain, as well as Ireland, have been for some time labouring, has excited attention to those unemployed sources of productive industry which, fortunately for us, the United Kingdom still possesses. These sources, it is believed, if properly employed, are not only amply sufficient to engage and make comfortable the present unemployed and distressed population, but, also, a far greater number than is at present existing in these islands.