The Anatomy of Tobacco
Returns.—A strong, rank tobacco, without fragrance or pleasant taste. Hot to the mouth, it breeds bile, and is to be avoided, unless by such as are veteran smokers.
Shag.—Like in all respects to Returns, save that it is ranker and more choleric. This tobacco I commend to none, and wish it were altogether abolished, since by its fumes much discredit is brought on tobacco in general.
Latakia.—Of itself a tasteless tobacco, or at least when smoked in pipes of European fashion, but useful for admixture with stronger tobaccos, and (as I am told) pleasantly to be smoked in a hookah or water-pipe.
Virginia.—Exceeding hot and biting in the mouth, and so to be condemned, yet of a most delicate and delightful fragrance, in which I think no tobacco surpasses it. Also of a fair strength, but a quick burner, and so dear to use.[1]
- ↑ Hence the memorial lines:—
Latakia, et Turkish, Returns, Virginia, Birdseye,
Shag, Honeydew, Cavendish:—omnia fumifera.It is doubted whether these be the lines in the mind
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