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of rolling up tobacco for smoking in a separate leaf into 

 cylindrical form, of the size of a large cigar. This simple 

 circumstance is suggestive ; it recalls to the memory what 

 the first European adventurers in the New World have told 

 us of the way the natives made up their herb for smoking. 

 The Spaniards had observed the natives of Cuba and of 

 Central America doing precisely the same thing ; rolling up 

 tobacco in a leaf of maize, or of the tobacco-plant, for 

 smoking in the same way as do these denizens of the 

 Flowery Land. And our countryman, Thomas Harriot, 

 the historian of Raleigh's first colonists, in his Brief and 

 True, Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 

 says : ' Soon after we made our peace with the natives we 

 found them making a fume of a dried leaf, which they 

 rolled up in a leaf of maize, of the bigness of a man's 

 finger .... putting a light to the leaf as they 

 smoked it, as is done by all men in these days.' This 

 identity of practice and habit points to a new link in the 

 chain of evidence, connecting the inhabitants of the New 

 World with the nations of eastern Asia, more particularly 

 with China. 



Bearing on the ethnological aspect of the subject is the 

 fact that pipes have been found on many different occasions 

 in the ancient earth-mounds of Ohio, in the valley of the 



INDIAN PIPE-HEADS FOUND IN MOUND CITY, OHIO. 



