28 



di'unk a great draught, that made him sweat all the while after." 

 1 Massachusetts Historical Society^s Collections, vol. viii. page 230. The 

 gratitude of the sachem was stirred, on feeling the superior potency 

 of the beverage of the white man to the cool flow of the fountains of 

 the wilderness, and he requited the libation, by the exchange of solid 

 tor fluid exhilaration. From the little bag of tobacco, which hung be- 

 hind his neck, he took that, which, says Mourt, " he drank, and gave 

 us to drink ; " a potation, probably, as sudorific to the stranger as the 

 fiery liquid he bestowed. 



The expression, " drinking tobacco,''^ is of frequent use in old writers. 

 Gerard says, " some use to drink it m wantonnesse, or rather custom, 

 and cannot forbeai'e it ; no, not in the middest of their dinner." 



One of the most bitterly eloquent maledictions ever pronounced, was 

 king James's anathema of smoking. " It is a custom, loathsome to the 

 eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, 

 and in the black fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian 

 smoke of the pit that is bottomless." His royal majesty is pleased to 

 express the opinion, " that tobacco was the lively image and pattern 

 of hell ; for that it hath by allusion, on it, all the parts and vices of 

 the world, whereby hell may be gained, to wit : " 



" First, It was a smoke ; so are the vanities of this world." 



" Secondly, it delighteth them who take it ; so do the pleasures of the 

 world delight the men of the world." 



" Thirdly, it maketh men drunken and light in the head ; so do the 

 vanities of the world: men are di-imken therewith." 



^'^ Fourthly, he thattaketh tobacco, saith he caimot leave it, it doth be- 

 witch : even so the pleasures of the woi'ld make men loath to leave 

 them, they are, for the most part, so enchanted with them." 



" AnAfuiiher, besides all this, it is lilve hell in the very substance of 

 it ; for it is a stinking, loathsome thing ; and so is hell." 



Considering how to entertain the prince of the powers of the air, the 

 king indicates a sumptuous banquet, with courses worthy of the hos- 

 pitality of a monarch ; declaring, that, "were he to invite the devil to 

 dinner, be should have three dishes : 1, a pig ; 2, a pole of Img and 

 mustard ; 3, a pipe of tobacco for digestion." 



VI. Wood's account of the gardens and orchards of Massachu- 

 setts, ABOUT 1633 ; AND Josseltn's description, about 1670. 



The earliest, printed, descriptive accountof Massachusetts, is that of 

 William Wood, who came to this country in 1629, and returned to 

 England, August 15, 1633. The fii-st edition of his " JVe«:> England's 



