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have even been supposed to belong to a period long ante- 
cedent to the introduction of tobacco into Europe, when 
some other plant is conjectured to have been used as a 
narcotic. My friend, Dr. Bruce, in his excellent work on 
the Roman Wall, has engraved two of these pipes, and 
mentioned others, found on Roman sites in the north of 
England. Another friend, well-known for his careful as 
well as learned antiquarian investigations, the Abbe Cochet, 
found both shanks and bowls of similar pipes in the Roman 
cemetery at Dieppe, in Normandy, and they have also been 
met with in a Roman Cemetery near Abbeville. They all 
seem to me to present by far too close a resemblance to 
the pipes in use about the time of James I. to be ascribed 
to any much earlier period, and we must, I think, ascribe 
these anomalous positions in which they are sometimes 
found to mere accident. We know how common a 
practice it was in former days to dig into these ancient 
tumuli in search of imaginary treasures, and it seems to me 
not impossible that some subject of our first king of the 
Stuart dynasty, engaged in a search of this kind, may 
have dropped his broken pipe in the Bridlington tumulus. 
With regard to the mineral coal and cinders, Mr. Tindall 
assures me that it was found at the bottom of the tumulus, 
among the original deposit ; and although the circumstance 
is a very extraordinary one, it is not impossible or even very 
improbable. It has been fully ascertained that the Romans 
in this island used mineral coal. Extensive remains of their 
coal mining operations have been found in Northumberland, 
and I believe in North Wales, where the seams cropped 
out at the surface ; and the cinders of mineral coal have 
been met with in more than one instance in the fire-places 
of Roman villas. I will mention as rather a curious 
coincidence with what was observed in these Yorkshire 
tumuli, that the Abbe Cochet found as the usual accom- 
