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 in 1620, the Company alone shipped forty thousand; in 1622, sixty thousand pounds were sent out, although it was in this year that the area under cultivation was narrowed in consequence of the massacre. The quality of the tobacco in general, notwithstanding the law requiring the destruction of the lowest grade, was very mean, although it was provided that only one thousand plants should be permitted to each head, and that the leaves of each plant should not exceed nine in number.