Review_, 1840, p. 335.)
Olearius found it fully established in Persia, 1637, only about fifty
years after its arrival in England. (Lond. 1662, in fol. p. 322.)
Chardin states, the Persians smoked long before the discovery of
America, and had cultivated tobacco time immemorial.
"Coffee without tobacco is meat without salt."--Persian Proverb,
Sale's _Koran_, Preliminary Discourse, 169. ed. 8vo.
In 1634 Olearius found the Russians so addicted to tobacco that they
would spend their money on it rather than bread. (See edit. above
quoted, lib. iii. p. 83.)
According to Prof. Lichtenstein, the Beetjuanen smoked and snuffed long
before their intercourse with Europeans. (_Med. and Chir. Rev._, 1840,
p. 335.)
Liebault, in his _Maison Rustique_, asserts that he found tobacco
growing naturally in the forest of Ardennes. Libavius says that it grows
in the Hyrcinian forest. (Ibid.)
Dr. Cleland shows the three last to be falsehoods(?).
Ysbrants Ides found tobacco in general use among the Ostiaks and other
tribes passed in his route to China, 1692.
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