290 SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



to be the best extant ; nay, we are assured if but half 

 the process of fabrication followed there were made 

 known, amateurs of the article would eschew it for ever. 

 Modern Indians are as warm admirers of snuff as 

 their ancestors. Their apparatus for making and 

 taking it is also similar to those described. I have 

 seen neat circular mills, varying from two to five inches 

 over; with conical and pyramidal pestles or mullers, 

 one and a half and two and a half inches long. The 

 sniffing-pipes are more portable and compact than 

 those figured above. They seldom exceed eight inches 

 in length, and sometimes are not over four. They are 

 often composed of three bones — the lower extremities 

 of the pair applied to the nostrils being united (by wax) 

 to a shorter and rather larger one ; precisely like one 

 suction-pipe serving two pumps. 



The Eastern nations make use of a box of hard 

 wood or ebony of an oblong spherical form about the 

 - size of a pear ; it has a narrow open- 



ing at the top, through which the 

 snuff is shook upon the hand ; as it 

 is moist, and may adhere to its sides, 

 an ivory stylus is used to stir it ; and 

 when the box is closed, it is done by 

 thrusting this down the centre of the 

 box, and screwing its head over the 

 aperture, as shown by the dotted lines 

 in the cut. 



The Chinese use a similar kind of snuff-box, looking 

 like a smelling bottle, and to their stoppers is appended 



