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_, § 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 Hadéth at Leghorn from Ibn Sáleh, 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 tabák; the last words, "_yukál lehn tabáku_," are no doubt a modern addition by those who had heard of _tambákó_ (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 _tambákó_, of which a complete account is given in the _Karábádén_, 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 _Karábádén_? 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 noticed in Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_, though as the continuator of Dugdale's _Monasticon_ he unquestionably ought to have been. Watt gives a list (_Bib. Brit._, vol. i. p. 880.) of his books and translations; but it is, as usual, very defective and erroneous. It does not include his translation of _Don Quixote_, of _Dupin_, of _An Evening's Intrigue_ (1707, 8vo.), and a great number of other works; and it ascribes to him the _History of the Wars of Charles XII., King of Sweden_, London, 1715, which was written, as it needs no great sagacity to discover, by Daniel Defoe, though Chalmers and Wilson have not noticed it. JAMES CROSSLEY.