Major Antedating of "Smog"

[Daniel Ezra Johnson]

>and as Mr. Edmund Yates, by combining the words "smoke"
>and "fog," gave to the London atmosphere the graphic name of
>"smog,"

But doesn't the Ambrose Bierce passage suggest a further antedating could be
found in the works of Edmund Yates?

For information on this Victorian writer, I suggest the following site:
http://jms.vse.cz/~xsvot01/0.htm

Daniel
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