first appeared a figure of the
plant in Andre Theret's "Cosmographie," which was but an imperfect
representation of the plant. It was supposed by many on its discovery
to grow like the engraving given--in form resembling a tree or shrub
rather than an herb. Tobacco was first brought to England by Sir John
Hawkins, who obtained the plant in Florida in 1565, and afterwards by
Sir Francis Drake.[30] The first planters of it in England were said
to be Captain Grenfield and Sir Francis Drake. One account of its
introduction into England is as follows:

[Footnote 29: The Pied Bull Inn, at Islington, was the
first house in England where tobacco was smoked, while
Moll Cut-Purse, a noted pickpocket who flourished in the
time of Charles II., is said to have been the first
Englishwoman who smoked tobacco.]

[Footnote 30: "It was introduced, about 1520, into
Portugal and Spain by Doctor Hernandez of Toledo; into
Italy by Thornabon and the Cardinal de Sainte-Croif,
into England by Captain Drake and into France by Andre
Theret, a gray friar."--_Le Maout and Decaisne's General
System of Botany_ (Paris 1868).]

"The plant was first used by Sir Walter Raleigh and others,
who had acquired a taste for it in Virginia.[31] Among the
natives the usual mode employed in smoking the plant was by
means of hollow canes, and pipes made of wood and decorated
with copper and green stones. To deprive it of its acidity,
some of the natives were wont to pass the smoke through
bulbs containing water, in which aromatic and medicinal
herbs had been infused."

[Footnote 31: Short says of its introduction into
England: "Sir Walter Raleigh's Marriners, under Mr.
Ralph Lane, his Agent in Virginia first brought this
Commodity into England Anno 1584; and that famous
Proprietor of this Plantation foresaw good reasons to
introduce the use of it, however King James might
afterwards, through his own personal Distaste both of it
and, him, wrote his Counterblast against it; a work
surely consistent with the Pen of no Prince, but one of
his Politicks."]

[Illustration: Old engraving of tobacco.]

Neander ascribes this invention to