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do not know ! " Whereupon someone 

 has remarked that there was one thing 

 certainly that Boxhornius did not know, 

 and that was how to moderate himself in 

 the use of tobacco, inasmuch as by smok- 

 ing incessantly he shortened his life. 



RALEIGH'S TOBACCO-BOX. 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH was no nig- 

 gard of his tobacco, if we may judge 

 from the size of his box. In 1719 this 

 relic was preserved in the museum of 

 Mr. Ralph Thoresby of Leeds. It was 

 cylindrical in form, about seven inches in 

 diameter and thirteen inches high ; the 

 outside was of gilt leather, and in the 

 inside was a cavity for a receiver of glass 

 or metal, which would hold about a 

 pound of tobacco. A kind of collar, con- 

 necting the receiver with the case, was 

 pierced with holes for pipes. 



