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Página 112 - India, and perhaps in the world, are grown near the village of Woodanum, in the Northern Circars," " and in some of those low sandy islands formed at the mouth of the river Krishna (from which is made the famous Masulipatam snuff) ; also in the Delta of the Godavery, where the soil is peculiarly rich and fertile.
Página 112 - Met. Pegu), and Sandoway as mountainous, and not subject to inundations, enjoying a cool sea breeze, and temperate nights nearly through the year. It is however, probable, that the superiority of the tobacco is owing to careful cultivation and cure. This was probably taught by Europeans, as Arracan was the seat of a Roman Catholic mission in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is pleasing to find here, as in the vicinity of Ormuz, the arts continuing to benefit a country long after the conquests...
Página 34 - ... protoxide, of iron ; rendering it highly probable that the flavour of the tobacco to the smoker depends on the state and quantity of the iron it contains! for we have now, observe, traced the iron from the soil into the cheroot. Green copperas water, which is a solution of sulphate of iron, is often used by the American and .English tobacconists and planters to colour and flavour their tobacco ; and this would be decomposed by the potass of the tobacco, and sulphate of potass and carbonate of...
Página 34 - Water and loss ... ... -60 2-40 3-00 100-00 100-00 100-00 from which it will be seen that the best tobacco soil we have hitherto found in India contains 16 per cent., or nearly one-sixth of iron, which is mostly in the state of peroxide, and that the inferior sort of tobacco grows in a soil containing only 6 per cent., or one-sixteenth of iron, which is moreover mostly in the state of protoxide, or black oxide. I thought it worth examining what the quantity of iron in the different sorts of tobacco...
Página 114 - Ameersfoorth (Dutch) ; all of which command high prices in relation to other kinds of leaf Tobacco. A portion of this sample has been made into cigars here, which are much approved ; and it is probable that if a moderate supply of Tobacco of the like quality were in this market, it might be in some request for making into cigars, and would come into competition with the Tobacco of St. Domingo, which is at present worth from 6d. to Sd. per pound in bond.
Página 118 - Assembly farther resolve to appoint a committee to draw up a respectful memorial to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and to correspond with that Honourable Court on this important subject.
Página 111 - it was supposed to be from the seed of Havannah or St Domingo tobacco.' For smoking, it is compared with Maryland tobacco, having the same qualities, ' except the flavour, which is better, and more like Havannah.' The colour and leaf are moreover pronounced excellent for cigar-making; ' but if anything is against it for that purpose, it is the largeness of the principal stalk, and coarseness of the small fibres in the leaf.
Página 36 - There are two peculiarities in these soils ; the first, that they contain no carbonate of lime, and only traces of phosphate and sulphate ; and the next, that their iron is almost wholly in the state of carbonate of iron — a widely different compound from the simple oxides. They would be called poor yellow loams ; and cotton, tobacco, or sugar-cane would probably starve upon them : but we find that they suit the tea plant perfectly. It is a striking coincidence, that we should find our tea soils...
Página 64 - It promises considerable advantage; particularly from its being so solid, and hard, as to resist the forceps of the white ants, and the teeth of the jackal, two great enemies to our East Indian sugar plantations. At the same time it bears drought much better than the sorts in general cultivation. It produces a profitable crop even to the third year ; while the common cane of India must be renewed every year. It is also said to yield juice of a richer quality.
Página 67 - The ground must be rich, friable, and so high as not to be overflowed during the rainy season, such as the Bengalees about Calcutta call danga. It is often planted on land where sugarcane grew the preceding year, and is deemed a meliorating crop. The soil must be well ploughed and cleared of weeds, &c. It is then raised in April and May, according as the rains begin to fall, into ridges nine or ten inches high and eighteen or twenty broad, with intervening trenches nine or ten inches broad.

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