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landlords In Ireland. He well soaks sonae strong 

 tobacco and thoroughly washes himself. A- few 

 applications of this sort, and he is left quietly to 

 himself. Nothing is more common along the Mis- 

 sissippi or the Missouri than to see, in the twilight 

 of a summer's evening, a large pan of tobacco 

 burning and smoking away before the front door 

 of the settler's cabin. The reason is that the mos- 

 quitos are rather plaguy, and the tobacco smoke 

 drives them away. 



Tobacco and Negroes, — If tobacco was first 

 grown and used after the present fashion in Ame- 

 rica, it must have spread to and permeated the 

 most remote countries with amazing rapidity. I 

 have an old book before me which, for pious ear- 

 nestness and equivocal morality. Is not often to be 

 equalled. It Is entitled 



" The Sea-Surgeon, or the Guinea Man's Vade Mecum ; 

 in whicli is laid down the Metiiod of curing such Dis- 

 eases as usually happen Abroad, especially ou the Coast 

 of Guinea ; with the best way of treating Negroes, both 

 in Health and in Sickness ; for the use of young Sea-Sur- 

 geons, by T. Aubrey, M.D., who resided many years on 

 the Coast of Guinea, 12iiio., London, 1729." 



On page 132. the author mentions tobacco as a 

 nationality among the negroes : 



" Some ships," says the author, " take in five or six 

 hundred slaves, yet perhaps by such times as they arrive 

 at the West Indies, or Virginia, they lose above three 

 parts of them. Moreover, they are accustomed to divert 

 themselves at home with dancing, and singing, and drink- 

 ing, altho' in moderation, and are also not everlasting, but 

 lasting smoakers, and therefore you must observe to order 

 them now and then a glass of brandy, ^specially when 

 you see them a little dull and melancholy ; and give them 

 betwixt whiles tobacco and pipes ; for as they are used to 

 smoak from their infancy, it will be very pernicious to 

 them to leave it; and seeing the owners allow both 

 brandy and tobacco sufficiently for them (altho' it's 

 very often embezzled away for other uses), j'ou must 

 speak boldly for it, and tell the commander such and 

 such things are absolutely necessary." 



Aubrey appears to have resided on the African 

 Coast as early as 1700, and, supposing some of 

 the negroes to have been fifty years of age who 

 had "smoakedfrom their Infancy," this will throw 

 the period of a general use of tobacco in Africa 

 as far back as the year 1650. 



Perfumed Snuff in Italy in 1646. — Jo. Ray- 

 mond, gent., in 1648, gave to the world his Itine- 

 rary, contayning a Voyage made through Italy in 

 the years 1646 and 1647, illusti'ated with divers 

 Figures of Antiquities, 12 mo. At page 49. Ray- 

 mond says, 



" The next morning we rode through a village Barba- 

 rino, from whence the mighty stirring familj' of the 

 Cardinalls tooke their originall. We din'd at Poggio 

 Bond, a place noted for the perfumed tobacco composed 

 there ; which the Italians through custome take in pow- 

 der as profusely, as we in England doe in the pipe." 



Tobacco and Scorpions. — Raymond, in speaking 

 of the Italians, says, 

 "Amongst their medicinall plants, scarce knowue 



amongst us but in apothecaries shoppes, I tooke notice 

 of one odoriferous hearbe called Basilico, which hath this 

 innate power, that if laid under a stone in some moyst 

 place, in two dayes it produceth a scorpion ; this I can 

 assert by experience, and to countenance this story, there 

 fell out a strange accident in >ny stay at Siena. A gen- 

 tleman was so pleas'd with the smell of this Basilico, that 

 he had some dry'd and beaten into powder, which he snift 

 up ; imagining it of the same force with tobacco to cleare 

 the head, but hee bought the experience at the price of 

 his life, for hee dyed distracted. His skull being after- 

 wards opened by the chyrurgion, a nest of scorpions were 

 found feeding on his braine," 



John Camden Hoiten. 

 Piccadilly. 



PBOCIiAMATION OF CHARLES II. 



I send you a copy of a document In my posses- 

 sion, which, if it seems to you to have sufficient 

 Interest, you are most welcome to publish in youi' 

 Notes. 



The original is on parchment, and the " C. R." 

 is apparently an autograph of the Merry Monarch. 

 This order was made to an ancestor of mine. Sir 

 John Rogers of Edmundham, the last male de- 

 scendant of the Brianstone family. 



I believe it Is not generally known that the 

 fowling pieces had, at that period, so completely 

 superseded the crossbow as an instrument for the 

 destruction of game, that the latter is not even 

 mentioned in the enumeration of sporting imple- 

 ments. The spelling of the original is of course 

 preserved, and the signature at bottom also ac- 

 curately copied. Wm. W. Coker. 



Parkstone, near Poole, Dorset. 



"Charles R. 



"Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scot- 

 land, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. 

 To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Rogers, Kight, 

 Greeting. Whereas, We are informed that our Game, 

 Hare, Pheasant, Partridge, Heron and other wild fowle 

 in and about our Counties of Dorset, Somerset, and Wilts 

 is much destroyed by divers disorderly persons with 

 Greyhounds, Mongrells, Setting dogs, guns, trammels, 

 tunnells, netts and other Engines contrary to the Statuts 

 of this our Realme in the case provided ; for the better 

 prevention hereof, and that the game may be the better 

 preserved for our Sport and recreation at such time as We 

 shall resort into those parts. We doe hereby will and 

 Command you to have a spciall care that no person or 

 persons doe hereafter use any of the said unlawfull 

 meanes or Engines for the destroying of our game within 

 10 miles of your House at Ensom within our Countie of 

 Dorset. And if any person after the signification of this 

 our pleasure shall presume with Greyhounds, Mongrils, 

 Setting dogs, gunns, tramels, netts or other Engines to 

 hurt or kill our said game of Hare, Pheasant, Partridge, 

 Heron or other wildfowle within the said distance, We 

 do hereby give full power and Authority unto you and to 

 your deputy or deputies to seize and take away all or any 

 of the said Greyhounds, Mongrels, Setting dogs, tramills, 

 tunnels, gunns, netts or other engines, and them to detain 

 and Certify to us or our privy Councell, the names of any 

 persons so offending, to the end such further order may 

 be taken for their punisbmeut, aa shall he fitt in cases of 



