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Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 4 4 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 2 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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t the natives of the West India islands used the leaves in rolls, — cigars. The Aztecs had cigar tubes, and also used nostril tubes of tortoise-shell for inhaling the smoke. The Mexicans and North American Indians used pipes. Ovideo speaks in 1426 of the inhaling of the smoke through the forked nostril tube by the Indians of Hispaniola. Lobel, in his History of plants, 1576, gives an engraving of a rolled tube of tobacco (a cigar) as seen by Colon in the mouths of the natives of San Salvaring that name, improved on Clements's planing-machine (see planing-machine) in his Jim crow planer, and also invented many ingenious and useful tools and appliances now commonly used in the workshop. See list of metal-working tools, pages 1425, 1426. The following general classification of tools, according to their functions and modes of action, has been proposed by a writer in the Scientific American :— 1. Geometrical tools, for laying off and testing work, as squares, gages, compasses