[10] Except from British possessions in America, and then it is 2_s._ 9_d._
[11] A short pipe smoked by the lower orders, and generally rendered black by time and the frequent use of the commonest shag tobacco.
[16] Antiquarian fact: The identical Pipe and Chair used by the celebrated author of the Rambler are still in being, and are exhibited as relics of no ordinary value, at the house he used formerly to frequent in Bolt-court, Fleet-street. It now goes under the very appropriate appellation of Dr. Johnson's Coffee-house.
[17] We more particularly refer to this fact from the reports concerning the Cholera Morbus that are now in circulation.
[18] Discourse on the Plague, A. D. 1678--recommends tobacco smoked in a pipe.
[19] Physician to the General Infirmary of the county of Stafford, A. D. 1785.
[21] Vide Experiments on the Effects of Oil of Tobacco on Pigeons, &c. &c.--Phil. Trans. Vol. xx. Part I. Append, p. 38. Fonbine sur les poissons, Florence. Quarto.
[23] I am sorry to say our leading black primer is all out; I have been down below, but they cannot spare any there.--_Printer's Devil._
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