Identifier: travelsthroughin00carv (find matches)
Title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768
Year: 1781 (1780s)
Authors: Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780. cn Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815. cn
Subjects: Indians of South America
Publisher: London, C. Dilly (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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he Culture of the Tobacco Plant,anno 1779. The former will fpeak foritfelf: the opinion of the public has,indeed, been fully teftified by the rapidfale of two large editions of this workin the fpace of the lafl: two years. The Treatife on Tobacco is a fmallodavo of fifty-four pages, containingtwo engravings of the plant, and an ac-^count of its cultivation on the Americancontinent. As this vegetable conftitutesone of the moil confiderable branches ofcommerce betwixt the old and newhemifpheres of the world, and thrivesluxurioufly in Europe as well as in Ame-rica, it is now pretty generally known :from the elegance of the plant and beautyof its flowers, it is cultivated in gardensI for ornament; in which charader itwill appear from a view of the annexedengraving of it. It was firfl: fent into Spain, in 1560: from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, hy Hermandez de Toledo, and from the place of its growth it received the narn^ which it ftill bears. It / Z/*/ //,,,,/ir^. ^,^».y/^ftfA->rltf
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(^^.,J22 TiieToBAC CO Pl.\:nt .^^^;*:>a/. »^. /.-^^ ( 21 ) It was called, by the French, Nico-tiana, after John Nicot, who went foonafter it was difcovered, as ambaflador tothat court, from Francis the Second ofPortugal, and carried fome of it withhim. Before the prefent conteft betweenGreat-Britain and the Colonies, about96,000 hogfheads were annually import-ed from Maryland and Virginia, which,with the duties on the home confump-tion, and the returns on foreign export,produced an immenfe revenue to thiscountry. The general ufes of Tobacco are wellknown 5 befides which, it is found nearlyequal to the bell oak-bark for tanningleather, efpecially with thinner forts ofhides 5 and would probably be ufed forthis purpofe, were it as cheap as the barkof the oak. Few fubjeds have been more copi-pully treated on than Tobacco: Monar-des, Stephanus, Everhartus, Thorius,Neander, Pauli, have each wrote uponfit largely. Neander publifhed a volumeon this fubjedl, entitled, Tobacologia,and ornam

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