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another pair of sniffing-pipes, but they varied so 

 slightly from those we have figured as to render a 

 sketch of them unnecessary. The bones of both were 

 very thin, round, of uniform bore, white, and relieved 

 by the black bulbs of rose-wood. 



Such was the snuff-making devices of old copper- 

 coloured artists, and such the fashionable mode of im- 

 bibing the sweet-scented dust by red warriors and ladies. 

 Has either been improved by white inventors ? The 

 mill is so simple, portable, cheap, and durable, that in 

 these respects it cannot be beaten. As regards the 

 singular attribute — so foreign to its chief design— of 

 communicating an agreeable perfume, what modern 

 engine can stand before it ? Of the sniffing-tubes it 

 may safely be said, that while for cleanliness and eco- 

 nomy they are far superior to fingers and thumbs, in a 

 philosophical point of view they are the oldest illustra- 

 tions extant of elevating dry substances through pipes 

 by atmospheric pressure. The custom of embellishing 

 and carrying the whole apparatus as personal ornaments 

 may be excepted to, but in this matter fancy rules, and 

 more costly pendants are not always more useful. On 

 the back of the handle of a is an angular recess worked 

 out, probably for kindling fire by friction ; thus uniting 

 in these rose-y^ood jewels the tinder-box, snuff-box, and 

 snuff-mill. Lastly, for the snuff itself : if we may trust 

 a first-rate judge, there is no comparison between its 

 warm, odoriferous, and grateful flavour when made and 

 taken as just described, and the fetid poisonous stuff 

 manufactured even in the royal factory of Spain — said 



