cap. iii.), "a fact that has been completely
established by the researches of Dr. Meyer of Konigsberg, who discovered
in the works of an old Hindostanee physician a passage in which tobacco
is distinctly stated to have been introduced into India by the Frank
nations in the year 1609." (Vide _An Essay on Tobacco_, by H.W. Cleland,
M.D. 4to. Glasgow, 1840, to which I am indebted for the information
embodied in this reply to Z.A.Z., and to which I would beg to refer him
for much curious matter on the subject of tobacco.)
My own impression is, that the common use of _hemp_ in the East, for
intoxicating purposes, from a very early period, has been the cause of
much of the misconception which prevails with regard to the supposed
ante-European employment of "tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent
tobacco," in the climes of the East.
J.M.B.
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"JOB'S LUCK," BY COLERIDGE.
These lines (see Vol. ii., p. 102.) are printed in the collected
editions of the poems of Coleridge. In an edition now before me, 3 vols.
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