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writers as one in the Archceological Journal* who, after referring to 

 Mr. Crofton Croker's signal refutation of " this absurd notion," 

 couples me with Dr. Bruce as " inclined to assign such pipes to an age 

 long prior to that of Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh." It might 

 be unreasonable to blame a contributor of editorial notes to the 

 Archceological Journal for overlooking a paragraph in the Proceedings 

 of the Scottish Antiquaries, of date a year earlier than his note,f 

 which records that " Dr. "Wilson communicated a notice of the dis- 

 covery of various of the small tobacco-pipes popularly termed ' Celtic' 

 or ' Elfin pipes,' in digging the foundation of a new school house at 

 Bonnington, in the immediate vicinity of Edinburgh. Along with 

 these were found a quantity of bodies or placks of James VI., which 

 he exhibited with the pipes, and at the same time expressed his belief 

 that they probably supplied a very trustworthy clue to the date of 

 this somewhat curious class of minor antiquities." This more 

 matured opinion of 1853 lay out of the way, and might not be 

 noticed by the Archaeological Journalist, as it would assuredly have 

 been overlooked by the zealous Roman, quite as much as the follow-- 

 ing continuation of the original quotation so aptly abridged to the 

 proportions of his classic tunic. But any writer who looked in its. 

 own pages, for the opinions set forth on this subject, in the " Pre- 

 historic Annals of Scotland," would have found that the abbreviated, 

 quotations in the " Roman Wall" and elsewhere, only give one side 

 of the statement, and that, after referring to an article in the Dublin 

 Penny Magazine, the inquiry is thus summed up : — 



" The conclusion arrived at by the writer in that magazine i?, that these Danes' 

 pipes are neither more nor less than tobacco pipes, the smallest of them pertaining 

 to the earliest years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, when the rarity and value of 

 tobacco rendered the most diminutive bowl sufficiently ample for the enjoyment 

 of so costly a luxury. From this he traces them down to the reign of Charles II. 

 by the increasing dimensions of the bowl. It is not improbable that these conclu- 

 sions may be correct, notwithstanding the apparent indications of a much earlier 

 origin, which circumstances attendant on their occasional discovery have seemed'to 

 suggest. 



The following description of a curious Scottish memorial of the luxury would, 

 however, seem at least to prove that we must trace the introduction of tobacco 

 into this country to a date much nearer the discovery of the new world by Column 

 bus than the era of Raleigh's colonization of Virginia. The grim old keep of 

 Cawdor Castle, apsociated in defiance of chronology with King Duncan and Macbeth, 

 is augmented like the majority of such Scottish fortalices, by additions of the 

 eixteenth century. In one of the apartments of this latter erection, is a stone 



• Archaeological Journal, Vol. XI , p. 182. 

 t Proceedings S. A. Scot. Vol. I. p. 182. 



