EGYPTIAN PIPES. 



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The tobacco smoked in Turkey is of a light kind, 

 and therefore allows a continuous inhalation with an 

 impunity not accorded to our stronger 

 sort. So completely have the Turks 

 become identified with smoking, that 

 one cannot imagine how they existed 

 before tobacco was introduced. That 

 quaint illustrator of books, Gustave 

 Dore of Paris, in his pictorial History 

 of Russia* has represented every Turk 

 with a pipe in his mouth, whatever his occupation ; 

 and he has reached the highest point of burlesque in 

 depicting the Moslem nurse with a baby provided with 

 a long pipe. 



We engrave two specimens of modern Egyptian 

 pipes, made of a peculiarly fine clay, of a delicate red 



tint ; and with a surface as smooth and polished as 

 agate. These pipes are made at Osioot on the Nile, 

 and sent thence to Cairo ; whence they are afterwards 

 exported in large quantities. The smallest is the new- 

 fashioned style. The larger with the broad base is 

 the old style. They are very cheap. The best kind 



* Histoire de la Saint e Russie, Paris, 1854. A severe satire on Russia 

 in past and present time, produced at the commencement of the last war 

 in the East. 



