t 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. Murray, Pallas, Rumphius,
Savary, &c.

Masson describes a "chillum," or smoking apparatus, found embedded in an
ancient wall in Beloochistan. (_Travels_, ii. 157.)

Dr. Yates saw amongst the paintings in a tomb at Thebes the
representation of a smoking party. (_Travels in Egypt_, ii. 412.)

There is an old tradition in the Greek Church, said to be recorded in
the works of the early Fathers, of the Devil making Noah drunk with
tobacco, &c. (Johnson's _Abyssinia_, vol. ii. p. 92.)

Nanah, the prophet of the Sikhs, was born 1419. Supposing him fifty when
he published his _Ordinances_, it would bring us to 1469, or 23 years
before the discovery of America by Columbus. In these _Ordinances_ he
forbade the use of tobacco to the Sikhs; but found the habit so deeply
rooted in the Hindu that he made an exception in their favour. (Masson's
_Beloochistan_, vol. i. p. 42.) Should this be true, the Hindu must have
been in the habit of smoking long before the discovery of America, to
have acquired so inveterate a predilection for it.

If the prophecy attributed to Mahomet be not a fabrication of after
times, it is strongly corroborative, and goes to show that he was himself
acquainted with the practice of smoking, viz.

"To the latter day there shall be men who will bear the name of
Moslem, but will not be really such, and they shall smoke a
certain weed which shall be called tobacco."--See Sale's
_Koran_, ed. 8vo. p. 169.

Query. Is tobacco the word in the original? If so, it is a
stumbling-block.

Lieut. Burns, in his _Travels_, has the following curious statement:

"The city of Alore was the capital of a great empire extending
from Cachemere to the sea. This was conquered by the Mahomedans
in the seventh century, and in the decisive battle they are
reported to have brought fire, &c., in their pipes t