[127] Ibid. vol. vi. p. 630.

[128] Book of Bon-Accord, p. 342.

[129] Records of Prestwick, p. 91.

[130] Was it used as a preventative or disinfecting agent? In some districts in Scotland at the present day all the attendants upon a funeral are regularly provided with tobacco and pipes at the expense of the relatives of the dead person.

[131] Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xii. p. 346.

[132] Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Isles, vol. ii. p. 102.

[133] Bartholini De Morbis Biblicis Miscellanea Medica (1672), p. 41.

[134] Faeroae et Faeroa Reserata, etc. (London, 1659), pp. 101 and 311, and Acta Medica, etc. Hafn. Tom. i. p. 98.

[135] Memoires de Medecine for 1782-3, p. 200.

[136] Voyage to Iceland (1770), p. 172.