86 DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS. 
the natives the usual mode employed in smoking the plant 
was by means of hollow canes, and pipes made of woo and 
decorated with copper. 
and green stones. Mo 
deprive it of its acidity, 
some of the natives 
were wont to pass the 
smoke through bulbs 
containing water, in 
which aromatic and me- 
dicinal herbs had been 
infused.” 
Neander ascribes this 
invention to the Per- 
sians; but Magnenus 
rather attributes it to the 
Dutch and English, to 
the latter of whom at- 
taches the credit of 
having invented the clay. 
pipes of modern times. 
Some writers have con- 
cluded that the plant 
served as a narcotic in 
some parts of Asia. 
Liebaut thinks it was 
known in Europe* 
OLD ENGRAVING OF TOBACCO. many years before the 
discovery of the New World, and asserts that the plant 
had been found in the Ardennes. Magnenus, however, 
claims its origin as transatlantic and affirms as his belief that 
the winds had doubtless carried the seeds from one continent 
to the other. Pallos says that among the Chinese, and 
among the Mongol tribes who had the most intercourse with 
them, the custom of smoking is so general, so frequent, and 
has become so indispensable a luxury;: the tobacco purse 
affixed to their belt so necessary an article of dress; the form 
of the pipes, from which the Dutch seem to have taken the 
* James the First also in 
which (though un clines to this belief, declaring tobacco to be ‘a common herb 
der divers names) grows almost everywhere.” 
