Granger 1 3/8 ounce pouch Granger owes its extra fragrance and mildness to good old Burley tobacco and 'Wellman's Process'- an old time tobacco secret
Another paper by Holleyhead(4) summarizes his own work with various materials, and also summarizes a paper by Cooke and Ide(5)
As he said in his 'Counter-blaste to Tobacco' in 1604: 'And surely in my opinion, there cannot be a more base, and yet hurtfull, corruption in a Countrey, then is the vile use (or other abuse) of taking Tobacco in this Kingdome' Christopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans to see American Indians smoking and chewing tobacco
Penn, The Soverane Herbe (1902), expressed it more expansively: Though pipes are fashioned from such varied materials as wood, stone, bronze, iron, and other metals, clay, china, asbestos, horn, and other vegetable and mineral products, pipes of clay, meerschaum, and wood form the overwhelming majority. Penns list was also somewhat incomplete for not having included many other mediums, such as agate, amber, bamboo, bone, cornelian, crystal, gutta-percha, ivory, porcelain, and silver, all of which, by 1900, were in vogue as materials for smoking tobacco
