242 RALEIGH. 



Walter Raleigh, first introduced the 

 custom of smoking now so prevalent 

 among all classes. It was a long low 

 building, with a thatched roof. At the 

 time I was there it was a public, as 

 lonely as Colman's "Red Cow" on 

 Muckslush Heath. Here my companion 

 and I repaired for refreshment, which we 

 partook of in the room where that cele- 

 brated scholar, courtier, warrior, historian, 

 and philosopher, indulged in his new- 

 discovered luxury, which he had learned 

 from the red men of Virginia. A young 

 rustic, as tradition goes, perceiving the 

 smoke issuing from his mouth and nos- 

 trils, threw the contents of a flagon over 

 him to extinguish, as he ignorantly 

 thought, the fire that was about to con- 

 sume him. 



Another took me to the neighbourhood 

 of Lulworth, and its castle the seat of 

 the Roman Catholic family of the Welds 

 is as conspicuous for its modern archi- 



