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NICOTIANA;

OR THE

SMOKER’S AND SNUFF-TAKER’S COMPANION;

CONTAINING THE

HISTORY OF TOBACCO;

CULTURE—MEDICAL QUALITIES AND THE LAWS RELATIVE TO ITS IMPORTATION AND MANUFACTURE:

WITH AN Essay in its Defence.

THE WHOLE ELEGANTLY EMBELLISHED AND INTERSPERSED WITH

ORIGINAL POETRY AND ANECDOTES, BEING INTENDED AS AN AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE VOLUME FOR ALL GENUINE LOVERS OF THE HERB,

BY HENRY JAMES MELLER, ESQ.

“I do assert and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man.” Captain Bobadil.—Every Man in his Humour.

LONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, Royal Exchange. 1832.

TO H. R. H. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, This little Work, AS A TRIFLING TOKEN OF VENERATION FOR HIS CHARACTER AND ESTEEM FOR HIS TASTE, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.