Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 10: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time
Pencil; an instrument used by paint ers for laying on their colors. Pencils are of various kinds, and made of various materials; the larger sorts are made of boar’s bristles, the thick ends Of which are bound to a Stick, large or small, according to the uses they are designed for; these, when large, are called brushes. The finer sorts of pencils are made of camels’, badgers’ and squirrels’ hair, and Of the down ofswans; these are tied at the up per end with a piece of strong thread, and enclosed in the barrel of a quill. Good pencils, when drawn between the lips, come to a fine point.
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