276 SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



burnt for witchcraft at the Cross of Paisley, in the close 

 of the seventeenth century. She was one of the " witches 

 of Bargarren, Renfrewshire," whose story is related in 

 Sinclair's volume Satan's Invisible World discovered. 

 Poor Maggie's box is a small wooden receptacle, upon 

 which fits a solid cover, with a strong handle above, 

 and a conical projection beneath; the tobacco is placed 

 in the box or mill, and pounded into dust by the cone, 

 the lower part of which is shod with rough metal to 

 assist the operation. The cut exhibits each portion of 

 the mill separate, as well as conjoined in the way it 

 would appear when the snuff was making. 



This old form is therefore essentially different to 

 the more modern snuff-mull, which is used as a recep- 

 tacle for ground snuff. The engraving 

 exhibits one about a century old, which 

 still resembles the older form of the 

 pounding machine ; but is simply covered 

 with a wooden lid, and was carried like 

 the modern snuff-box about the person. 

 This sketch may assist in illustrating 

 the process by which snuff-boxes or 

 horns came to be called mills (pro- 

 nounced mulls by the Highlanders). Snuff was termed 

 snush* and sneeshing in the North. Among Tanna- 

 hill's Songs is The Highlander's Invitation, who urges 

 among other attractions to his bothy — 



* In the History of Scaramouch, 1698 (quoted p. 254), snuff is always 

 called snush. 



