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selves round it, they cast into the rlre; then snuffing 

 up the scent of the fruit thrown in, whilst burning, 

 they become drunk with the odour of it as the Greeks 

 do with wine. In proportion as more fruit is thrown 

 in, they become more intoxicated ; until they rise up 

 to dancing, and from that to singing. Such is re- 

 ported to be their manner of living p" 



King James I. is well known to have had a par- 

 ticular dislike to the fumes of tobacco, and employed 

 his pen as well as his regal authority to suppress the 

 use of it. His pamphlet entitled A counterblast 

 to Tobacco, commences by stating the odious pur- 

 poses to which tobacco is applied as a medical herb, and 

 he concludes the paragraph with this eloquent apos- 

 trophe to those who take it for an amusement : — " And 

 now, good countrymen, let us (I pray you) consider 

 what honour or policy can move us to imitate the 

 barbarous and beastly manners of the wild, godless, 

 and slavish Indians, especially in so vile and stinking 

 a custom — these, who are the refuse of the world, 

 and as yet aliens from the holy covenant of God. 

 Why do we not as well imitate them in walking 

 naked as they do ? in preferring glasses, feathers, and 

 such toys, to gold and precious stones, as they do ? Yea, 

 why do we not deny God, and adore the devil, as they 

 do?" Notwithstanding this royal declamation, which 

 consists of nine foiio pages, and a tax imposed of six shil- 



P Herodotus, Lib. i. (Clin) 'O J'e Agaf»; Key-rat— 

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