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 Jestyn ap Gwrgan, his ancestor, the bowl of whose pipe was even a hollow rock, and the stem thereof a young pine-tree. And when the clouds of heaven, hanging low, obscure the mountains from the eyes of men, then they say that Jestyn is smoking his pipe; which whether it be true I dare not pronounce, but am inclined to believe it possible.

Such being our demonstration of short wooden pipes, next let us advance to short clay pipes, which may be arranged under two heads—namely, clay proper, as the term is commonly understood, and meerschaum, which is a finer and better sort of clay. Now it will be remembered that in the former part of this tract in my synopsis of pipes and in the definitions preceding that synopsis mention was made of "ornament" and "essential colour," and it was explained that the term "ornament" denoted that the surface of a pipe was not smooth and plane, but in all or singular of its parts raised or embossed. And "essential colour" signified that by the art of the maker any colour or colours