PLATE III.
Fig. 1. A Steel-yard with its Cafe. a. The Case, which shuts up with great ease and convenience. b. The Steel-yard itself, formed of ivory. c. The Scale with its Strings. d. The Strings, by which the Steel-yard is held, when used. e. The Weight.
2. A Tooth-brush, of soft wood, to clean the teeth with.
3. A common Writing-pencil, made of a reed and hare’s hair.
4. A Spring Steel-yard, or Weight upon a Spring, which is very elastic, for weighing smaller articles.
(i.e.)
Fig. 1. A Javanese SABRE in its scabbard.
2. The SCABBARD, when the saber is drawn out of it.
3. A Hottentot STRING of differently coloured glass beads to wear about the neck.
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