[12] Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
[13] Sterne’s Sentimental Journey.
[14] By Goldsmith.
[15] Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle.
[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.
[20] At that time frequently so called.
[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.