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T fE LAlOiATORY.
                    PART XIV.
               MISCELLANEOUS.
                 OF SNUFF-MAKING.
 SNUFF is a powder applied to the internal membrane of
    the nose, either in a medicinal point of view, or as a
pleasurable custom.
   It is composed principally of a foreign herb called to-
bacco, the use of which is too well known to need any de-
scription.
   Although tobacco is the usual basis of snuff, yet other
matters are sometimes added, to give it, an agreeable fla-
vour and scent, to suit the peculiar palates and fancies of
the several takers. Infinite are the names which the ven-
ders of this article have invented; and, perhaps, the suc-
cession of days is adding to the catalogue.
   It will be sufficient therefore to say, that there are three
classes of snuffs, under which all the rest may be placed,
viz. 1. granulated; 2. an impalpable powder; 3. the bran,
or coarse parts remaining after the second sort has been
sifted.
  Lord Stanhope has made, a calculation of the time wasted
by professed snuff-takers, which, as it is both curious and
amusing, shall be here inserted.
  " Every professed, inveterate, and incurable snuff-taker,"
says his Lordship, " at a moderate computatki, takes one
                                               "pinch