. Pipes and tobacco [microform] : an ethnographic sketch. Tobacco-pipes; Tobacco; Pipes; Tabac. JWiJgjgj^^gWg aijtoono viAtii utn mtnmawg^ OotuUiotly Mnokinff of tobMOo, Mid in this nauiMr: they 1uit« piped M purpoM mad* of 0U7. into lh« further end of wbtob they put th« kerb, w) dry tb«t it may bo rubbed into powder, «nd putting fire to it, thoy drew tho emoke into their moutbe, which they puiT out ageia through their noetrik like funneU, along with it plenty of phlegm, â¢od defluiion of the ; 1 To thie it ia, that Justice Overdoo refen in Ben Jonaon'i " Bar- tholomew Fair
. Pipes and tobacco [microform] : an ethnographic sketch. Tobacco-pipes; Tobacco; Pipes; Tabac. JWiJgjgj^^gWg aijtoono viAtii utn mtnmawg^ OotuUiotly Mnokinff of tobMOo, Mid in this nauiMr: they 1uit« piped M purpoM mad* of 0U7. into lh« further end of wbtob they put th« kerb, w) dry tb«t it may bo rubbed into powder, «nd putting fire to it, thoy drew tho emoke into their moutbe, which they puiT out ageia through their noetrik like funneU, along with it plenty of phlegm, â¢od defluiion of the ; 1 To thie it ia, that Justice Overdoo refen in Ben Jonaon'i " Bar- tholomew Fair," (Act II, Scene V^.) " Nay, the hole in the noae here, of aome tobaooo^takors, or the third noatril, if 1 may ao Mil it, which makea that they can Tent the tobacco out, like the ao« of oluba, or rather the flwcr-de-lice, ii cauaed from the tobacco, the mere tobacco!" and ao aliio, in a paaaagc already referred to, iu Wamcr'a " Albion'a England," the " Indian weed fumee away from noatrila and from throats" of ladiea, m well aa lord* and grooma. The. minute aise of the moat ancient of the British tobacco pipes which hna led to their deaignation aa thoae of tho Elves or ^'^if^ may therefore be much more certainly ascribed to the mode of usin|( the tobacco, which rendered the coritenta of the smallest of theip ft â¢uiDoiont dose, than to viy economic habits in those who indulged iu the novel luiury. In this opinion I um further confirmed by observ- ing the same miniature charaoteristioa mark various apeoimens of antique native pipes of a peculiar oUbs to which I have already referred as found in Canada, and which appear to be such as. in all probability were in use, and furnished the models of the English clay pipes of the sixteenth century. But if the date thus assigfied for thr earlieafc English clay pipes be the true one, it has an important bearing on ft much wider question { «nd m * test of the value to be attached to po
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