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Show Smoking In Ancient Ireland. There fere doubts as to whether smoking was not known before the days of Raleigh, says the Daily Chronicle Chron-icle of London. "Small tobacco pipes, of an ancient form." writes an archaeologist arch-aeologist (at the beginning of the last century), "are frequently found in Ireland Ire-land on digging or plowing up the ground, particularly in the vicinity of those circular intrenchments called Danish forts, which were more probably prob-ably the villages or settlements of the native Irish." He adds that "in the Anthologia Hi-bernica Hi-bernica (Dublin, 1795J there is a print of one, which was found at Brannocks-town. Brannocks-town. County Kildare, sticking between be-tween the teeth of a human skull; and it is accompanied by. a paper, which, on the authority of Herodotus (lib. i. sec. 36). Strabo (lib. vii. 296), goes to prove that the northern nations of Europe were acquainted with tobacco, or a herb of similar properties, and that they smoked it through small tubes-long tubes-long before the existence of America was known." |