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Several sorts of Snuff, Solid and Liquid, how to Make and Perfume them.

To Prepare and Cleanse Snuff.

The Ground of it is Tobacco dried into Pouder, that it will sift curiously through a fine Sieve, and then it requires briefly to be washed and clean∣sed in the following manner.

Soak it in Fair Water twenty four hours, then take it out, and squeeze it very well in a Cloth, dry it in the Sun on Wicker Hurdles, over which a fine Lin∣nen Cloth is laid, keeping it turning, and stirring almost continually; being dried, sprinkle Sweet-Water on it, as Orange, Jessimine, Angel, or the like, then dry it again, and wet and dry it three times, by which means it will be capable to take

the impression of any Scent, by being sprinkled on it, or infused; but if you design to colour it Red or Yellow, it must be done before it is scented, especially for Flower-scents, it may be coloured with Red or Yellow-Oker.