Tobacco only had any flavor of Golconda.
At this time the rich soil, composed of layer on layer of the decay of forests that had lived from old time, was incredibly fertile.

As fast as trees could be felled and dragged away, in went the tobacco.

Fields must have laborers, nor did these need to be especially intelligent.

Bring in indentured men to work.

Presently dream that ships, English as well as Dutch, might oftener load in Africa and sell in Virginia, to furnish the dark fields with dark workers! In Dale's time had begun the making over of land in fee simple; in Yeardley's time every "ancient" colonist--that is every man who had come to Virginia before 1616--was given a goodly number of acres subject to a quit-rent.