TURKISH PIPES. 



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smoke to rise through the water, and find its way 

 through the other pipe to the mouth. 



The luxuriousness of Eastern taste has far outshone 

 all other nations in the costly character of the pipes 

 used by the nobles there. The hookah is capable of 

 more lavish outlay than the Viennese meerschaum, 

 and usually receives it. There is no such costly and 

 elaborate mode of enjoying the weed as this. Taking 

 a pipe with the Grand Turk is a truly regal solemnity. 



The hookah is a ponderous piece of machinery, and it 

 owns proper attendants sacred to its necessities ; their 

 business being to bear the pipe wherever it may 

 be required, and all the articles used therewith by 

 the smoker. The receptacle for the water is usually 

 formed of glass richly cut, or engraved and gilt, some- 

 times of the precious metals, decorated with enamels. 



