Lafitau quotes Pomp. Mela and Solin to show the same; also Herodotus and
Maximin of Tyre, as evidences to the same custom prevailing amongst the
Scythians, and thinks that Strabo alludes to tobacco in India. (See, for
the Scythians, the _Universal History_.) Logan, in his _Celtic Gaul_,
advances that smoking is of great antiquity in Britain. He says that
pipes of the Celts are frequently found, especially at Brannocktown, co.
Kildare, where in 1784 they were dug up in great numbers; that a
skeleton dug out of an ancient barrow, actually had a pipe sticking
between its teeth when found. (From _Anthol. Hibern._, i. 352.) Halloran
says Celtic pipes are found in the Bog of Cullen. In form, these pipes
were very similar to those in use at this day.
Eulia Effendi mentions having found a tobacco pipe, still in good
preservation, and retaining a smell of smoke, embeded in the wall of a
Grecian edifice more ancient than the birth of Mahomet. (_Med. Chir.
Rev._ 1840, p. 335.) This Dr. Cleland proves to be a lie(?). He proves
the same of Chardin, Bell of Antermony, Mr.
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