Antiquity of Smoking

On that interesting subject, "The Antiquity of Smoking," I beg to contribute the following "Note," which I made some years ego, but unfortunately without a reference to the author:— "Some fern was evidently in use among the ancients: for Athenæus, in his first book, quotes from the Greek poet, Crobylus, these words:— [Greek: 'Kai ton larung haedista purio temachiois Kaminos, ouk anthropos.'] 'And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings: A chimney, not a man!' "Now as, in a preceding line, the smoker boasts of his 'Idæan fingers,' it is plain that every man rolled up his sharoot for himself…