been the Bastile, whereas the time is said to have
been the Reign of Terror, and therefore of course the Bastile cannot have
been the place.

J. C. R.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Tobacco in the East_ (vol. ii., pp. 155. 231.).--M. D. asks for "chapter
and verse" of A. C. M.'s reference to Sale's _Koran_ respecting tobacco.

Had A. C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant,
he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original"
of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, Sec. 5. p.
123. (4to. ed. 1734.) Happily Reland, whom Sale quotes (_Dissert.
Miscell._, vol. ii. p. 280.), gives his authority, the learned orientalist,
Dr. Sike, who received the Hadeth at Leghorn from Ibn Saleh, a young
Muselman. It says, in good Arabic, that in the latter days Moslims,
undeserving of the name, shall drink hashish (hemp), and call it tabak; the
last words, "_yukal lehn tabaku_," are no doubt a modern addition by those
who had heard of _tambako_ (the Romaic [Greek: tanpakon]). As the use of
hashish or _hashishah_ (the herb), more completely _hashishata fukara_,
i.e. Monk's Wort, a technical term for _hemp_, chewed as a narcotic by
fakirs (monks), was not known till A.H. 608 (A.D. 1211), it could not be
mentioned in the Koran unless Mohammed were, as Sale observes, "a prophet
indeed." _Tabakak_, a plate, dish, or shelf, is now sometimes used by
ignorant persons in the East for _tambako_, of which a complete account is
given in the _Karabaden_, or great treatise of Materia Medica in Persian.
Of that work, there is a beautifully written copy, made, probably, for the
late Mr. Colebrooke, by whom it was presented to the library of the Royal
Asiatic Society. I shall conclude by another Query: What is the Greek word
transformed by Asiatic scribes into _Karabaden_?

ANATOLICUS.

_Captain John Stevens_ (Vol. ii., p. 359.).--This ingenious man, as to whom
your correspondent inquires, was one of the hard-working translators in the
early part of the last century. The materials for his biography are very
scanty. He was a Roman Catholic, and at the Revolution followed the
fortunes of his abdicating master, in whose service he accepted a
commission, and accompanied him in the wars in Ireland. He was also
employed in several other services, and died October 27, 1726. See
_Biographia Dramatica_, vol. i. p. 691., edit. 1812. He is not n