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[No. 40. 



that twenty years previously to that date the 

 Turks were inveterate smokers. M. Adr. Balbi 

 insists likewise on tlie prevalence of the Haitian 

 name " tambaku " being conclusive as to the intro- 

 duction of tobacco from America. This, however, 

 is not exactly the case : in many countries of the 

 East it has vernacular names. In Ceylon it is 

 called " dun-kol" or smoke-leaf; in China, " tharr" 

 — Barrow says, "yen." 



The Yakuti (and Tungusi ?) call it " schaar." 

 The Crim Tartars call it " tiitiin." The Koreans 

 give it the name of the province of Japan whence 

 they first received it. In the Tartar (Calmuc and 

 Bashkir?) " gansa" is a tobacco-pipe. In America 

 itself tobacco has many names, viz. " goia," " go- 

 zobba" or " cohobba," " petnn," " y'ouly,'' " yoly, ' 

 and " uppwoc." Are there any proofs of its grow- 

 ing wild in America? At the discovery it was 

 every where found in a state of cultivation. The 

 only mention I have met with is in Drake's Book 

 of the /?«J«wi.s*, where he says it gi-ew spontaneously 

 at Winjzandacoat, and was called by the natives 

 " uppewoc." Does not this very notice imply 

 something unusual ? and might not this have been 

 a deserted plantation ? 



The Indians have always looked to Europeans 

 for presents of tobacco, which they economise by 

 mixin"- with willow-bark, the uva-ursi, &c., and 

 there are some tribes totally unaccpiainted with its 

 use. M'Kenzie says, the Chepewyans Jearnt smok- 

 ing from Europeans, and that the Slave and Dog- 

 rib Indians did not even know the use of tobacco. 



In mentioning the silence of early visitors to the 

 East on the subject of smoking, I might have 

 added equally the silence of the Norwegian visi- 

 tors to America on the same subject. A. C. iM. 



Exeter, July 25. 1850. 



The tobacco-plant does not appear to be indi- 

 genous to any part of Asia. Sir John Chardin, 

 who was in Persia about the year 1670, relates in 

 his travels, that tobacco had been cultivated there 

 from time immemorial. " Honest John Bell" (of 

 Antermony), who travelled in China about 1720, 

 asserts that it is reported the Chinese have had 

 the use of tobacco for many ages, llumphius, who 

 resided at Amboyna towards the end of the seven- 

 teenth century, found it universal over the East 

 Indies, even in countries where Spaniards or Por- 

 tuguese had never been. The evidence furnished 

 by" these authors, although merely traditional, is 

 the strongest which I am aware of in favour of an 

 Asiatic origin for the use of tobacco. 



]\Ir. Lane, on the other hand, speaks of the 

 " introduction of tobacco into the East, in the be- 

 ginning of the seventeenth century of our era," 

 {Arabian Nights, Note 22. cap. iii.), "a fact that 



has been completely established by the researches 

 of Dr. Meyer of Konigsberg, who discovered in 

 the works of an old Hindostanee physician a pas- 

 sage in which tobacco is distinctly stated to have 

 been introduced into India by the Frank nations 

 in the year 1609." (Vide An Essay on Tobacco, 

 by H. W. Cleland, M.D. 4to. Glasgow, 1840, 

 to which I am indebted for the information em- 

 bodied in this reply to Z. A.Z., and to which I 

 would beg to refer him for much curious matter 

 on the subject of tobacco.) 



My own impression is, that the common use of 

 hemp in the East, for intoxicating purposes, from 

 a very early period, has been the cause of much of 

 the misconception which prevails with regard to 

 the supposed ante-European employment of " to- 

 bacco, divine, rare, super-e.\cellent tobacco," in 

 the climes of the East. J. M. B. 



• Book iv., p. 5., ed. 8vo., Boston. 

 "I" Virginia, 



"job's luck," by COLERIDGE. 



These lines (see Vol. ii., p. 102.) are printed in 

 the collected editions of the poems of Coleridge. 

 In an edition now before me, 3 vols. r2mo., Picker- 

 ing, 1836, they occur at vol. ii. p. 147. As printed 

 in that place, there is one very pointed deviation 

 from the copy derived by Mr. Singer from the 

 Ci-ypt. The last line of the first stanza runs 

 thus : — 



" And the .sly devil did not take his spouse." 



In the Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1 848, 

 there is a poem by Coleridge, entitled " The 

 Volunteer Stripling," which I do not find in the 

 collected edition above mentioned. It was con- 

 tributed to the Bath Herald, probably in 1803; 

 and stands there with " S. T. Coleridge" ajipended 

 in full. The first stanza runs thus : — 

 " Yes, noble old warrior 1 this heart has beat high, 



When you told of the deeds which our countrymen 

 wrought ; 

 O, lend me the sabre that hung by thy thigh, 

 And I too will fight as my forefathers fought." 



I remember to have read the following version 

 of the epigram descriptive of the character of the 

 world some twenty or thirty years ago ; but where, 

 I have forgotten. It seems to me to be a better 

 .'ext than either of those given by your correspon- 

 dents : — 



" Oh, what a glorious world we live in, 

 To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in ; 

 But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own, 

 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known." 



J. Bruce. 



ECCIUS DEDOLATUS. 



Mr. S. W. Singer, for an agreeable introduc- 

 tion to whom I am indebted to " Notes and 

 Queries," having expressed a wish (Vol. ii., 



