_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. ii., pp. 41. 216.).--On that interesting
subject, "The Antiquity of Smoking," I beg to contribute the following
"Note," which I made some years ego, but unfortunately without a
reference to the author:--
"Some fern was evidently in use among the ancients: for
Athenæus, in his first book, quotes from the Greek poet,
Crobylus, these words:--
[Greek:
'Kai ton larung haedista purio temachiois
Kaminos, ouk anthropos.']
'And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings:
A chimney, not a man!'
"Now as, in a preceding line, the smoker boasts of his 'Idæan
fingers,' it is plain that every man rolled up his sharoot for
himself."