A pipe of tobacco : with whiffs and clouds . he latter being finer intexture as well as more pliant. Those which are most carefullyand beautifully rolled are the Regalias, and these are generallymade of the finest Tobacco, which is grown in the Vuelda Abaja,or lower district of the West of Havannah, between that capital A PIPE OF TOBACCO. 0 and Puerto del Principe, which also gives name to a fine plumpCigar, lately introduced here, and remarkable for the rich flavour^fcich it possesses. Hernandez employs about a hundred men inhis factory, and as of the best Cigars (Regalias) good workmencan ma
A pipe of tobacco : with whiffs and clouds . he latter being finer intexture as well as more pliant. Those which are most carefullyand beautifully rolled are the Regalias, and these are generallymade of the finest Tobacco, which is grown in the Vuelda Abaja,or lower district of the West of Havannah, between that capital A PIPE OF TOBACCO. 0 and Puerto del Principe, which also gives name to a fine plumpCigar, lately introduced here, and remarkable for the rich flavour^fcich it possesses. Hernandez employs about a hundred men inhis factory, and as of the best Cigars (Regalias) good workmencan make six hundred a day, and of the more common sorts, athousand, there daily issues from this immense emporium abouteighty thousand Cigars, which would yield upwards of a ,£100 perdiem. Many of the metropolitan makers vie with DosAmigos in the extent of their establishments, but the profits, ofcourse, are not so enormous as we may presume ; these of theWest India firms. END OF WHIFF THE SECOND. WHIFF THE CUBA8 AND CIGARS IN URELYno fair and gentle votaryof the art Terpsichorean ever co-quetted and pirouetted with theweed for a partner ? Yet well dowe know each variety of Cigar hasits own especial favourite, and thispreference is variously manifestedby individual smokers, as well asthose in the mass. Some hankerafter the savoury Havannah, whe-ther of British or Foreign manu-facture, others revel in the odorousfumes of the Regalia, but whetherwe mount a Manilla, pick out aPrincipe, choose a Chinsurah, bran-dish a Bengal, try a Trichinopili,lay hold of a Lopez, manage aMexican, question a Queens, orcome to a Cuba, it is obviouslynecessary that the best specimenof each kind should be selected by the connoisseur. To these the remarks in our last whiffwill fully apply—the only care to be taken in a Cheroot being thesame as with the managerial selection of a new drama, viz., A PIPE OF TOBACCO. whether it will draw. Many, to ensure this desideratum, ignitetheir cher
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