160 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



Leaving therefore any further consideration of this 

 question, really not worth the time bestowed upon it, 

 but rendered necessary by being forced in our way; 

 we may proceed to examine the pipes themselves and 

 what they tell us of their own history, and the modes 

 adopted for the consumption of the herb by the world 

 of Smokers. 



In the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland is an old wooden tobacco-pipe, the spur of 

 which projects considerably, and the bowl has been 

 much burnt away in smoking.* It is stated to have 



been found in Gould Scalp mine, in the ball of New- 

 lands, the first copper vein discovered in England, and 

 claimed as a Royal Mine by Queen Elizabeth. It was 

 worked by Dutch miners in 1582, but tempting as this 

 specimen might be to found a presumption upon, a 

 much more recent date than that must be given to the 

 pipe, for the form of the stem belongs to the middle of 

 the seventeenth century, as a glance at our engraving, 



would be quite in accordance with, the usual style adopted ; and quite as 

 worthy to he received as evidence. 



* In the Museum of the Department of Science and Art at Kensington 

 is a very beautiful pipe, procured from the collection at the Collegia 

 Romana. It is elaborately carved in box-wood in the style of the Renais- 

 sance, and is an exquisite example of the applicability of ornamental art to 

 general uses. It was probably made in the seventeenth century. 



