...h mortar. The snuff-mills of Holland are on a very large scale, and are impelled by wind. Although Columbus found smokers in the Antilles, and Pizarro first beheld chewers in Peru, yet Brazil ians were the first and best fabricators of snuff. Fig. 5262 illustrates their milling and sniffing apparatus. The figure represents a slab of rosewood with a depression for holding the dried leav...