[2] M. Valmont de Bomare, formerly director of the cabinets of Natural History, Medicine, &c. to the prince of Conde.
[3] The British Historian.
[4] A well-known perfumer in his day who resided in Beaufort’s Buildings, London, A. D. 1740.
[5] Scrows are the untanned hides of buffaloes, sewed with thongs of the same, and made up into bags or bales for the exportation of several kinds of American produce, as indigo, snuff, tobacco, &c. &c. The fleshy side of the skin is turned outwards, whilst the hairy side, partly scraped, comes into anything but an agreeable contact with the commodity.
[6] Independent of His Royal Highness’s attachment to the Columbian weed, the Duke has a repository where are to be seen, in curious arrangement, all the smoking tubes in use by the civilized inhabitants of the world, from the slender pipe used by the Hollander, to the magnificent Hookah used by the Indian prince in his Court, or on the back of his elephant; and so attentive is the prince to this healthy amusement, that even in his travelling carriage a receptacle is formed for the pipe, the tinder, the flint, and the steel.
[7] The Pipe of Peace.
[8] The two celebrated anglers.
[9] See Walton’s complete Angler. Charles Cotton of Beresford Hall, his little Fishing House.
[10] Except from British possessions in America, and then it is 2s. 9d.
[11] A short pipe smoked by the lower orders, and generally rendered black by time and the frequent use of the commonest shag tobacco.