Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 208
lishmen who had come to Virginia hadfound that they could raise nothing which was somuch wanted in England, and could bring them pleasure was, and sometimes wished the weed hadnever been discovered. The King of England didnot like it, and he wrote a book to dissuade peoplefrom the use of tobacco ;… … so much money, as tobacco. Besides, these Eng-lishmen had not been mechanics or fishermen orsailors in England ; they had for the most partbeen used to living on farms. So they fell at onceto planting tobacco, and they could not raiseenough to satisfy people in England and otherparts of the Old…
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