[1] _Memoires Philosophiques, Historiques, Physiques, concernant la
Decouverte de l'Amerique, &c. Par Don Ulloa. Traduit avec des observations
par M----._ Paris, 1787. Vol. II. p. 58.
[2] _M. Valmont de Bomare_, formerly director of the cabinets of Natural
History, Medicine, &c. to the prince of Conde.
[3] The British Historian.
[4] A well-known perfumer in his day who resided in Beaufort's Buildings,
London, A. D. 1740.
[5] Scrows are the untanned hides of buffaloes, sewed with thongs of the
same, and made up into bags or bales for the exportation of several kinds
of American produce, as indigo, snuff, tobacco, &c. &c. The fleshy side of
the skin is turned outwards, whilst the hairy side, partly scraped, comes
into anything but an agreeable contact with the commodity.
[6] Independent of His Royal Highness's attachment to the Columbian weed,
the Duke has a repository where are to be seen, in curious arrangement,
all the smoking tubes in use by the civilized inhabitants of the world,
from the slender pipe used by the Hollander, to the magnificent Hookah
used by the Indian prince in his Court, or on the back of his elephant;
and so attentive is the prince to this healthy amusement, that even in his
travelling carriage a receptacle is formed for the pipe, the tinder, the
flint, and the steel.
[7] The Pipe of Peace.
[8] The two celebrated anglers.
[9] See Walton's complete Angler. Charles Cotton of Beresford Hall, his
little Fishing House.
[10] Except from British possessions in America, and then it is 2_s._
9_d._
[11] A short pipe smoked by the lower orders, and generally rendered black
by time and the frequent use of the commonest shag tobacco.
[12] Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
[13] Sterne's Sentimental Journey.
[14] By Goldsmith.
[15] Smollett's Peregrine Pickle.
[16] Antiquarian fact: The identical Pipe and Chair used by the celebrated
author of the Rambler are still in being, and are exhibited as relics of
no ordinary value, at the house he used formerly to frequent in
Bolt-court, Fleet-street. It now goes under the very appropriate
appellation of Dr. Johnson's Coffee-house.
[17] We more particularly refer to this fact from the reports concerning
the Cholera Morbus that are now in circulation.
[18] Discourse on the Plague, A. D. 1678--recommends tobacco smoked in a
pipe.
[19] Physician to the General Infirmary of the county of Stafford, A. D.
1785.
[20] At that time frequently so called.
[21] Vide Experiments on the Effects of Oil of Tobacco on Pigeons, &c.
&c.--Phil. Trans. Vol. xx. Part I. Append, p. 38. Fonbine sur les
poissons, Florence. Quarto.
[22] Treatise on the Culture of Tobacco.
[23] I am sorry to say our leading black primer is all out; I have been
down below, but they cannot spare any there.--_Printer's Devil._