Excerpt from British Manufacturing Industries: Paper, Printing and Bookbinding, Engraving, Photography, Toys And marshes in about two feet depth of water, and usually in quiet streams. It was, however, found by Bruce, growing in rapid portions of the river Jordan, where he noticed a curious and interesting fact in its history, namely, that the thick stems, which have some what of a pear-shaped section, always present the sharp angular side to the stream, thereby offering the least possible resistance. The immense ...
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Excerpt from British Manufacturing Industries: Paper, Printing and Bookbinding, Engraving, Photography, Toys And marshes in about two feet depth of water, and usually in quiet streams. It was, however, found by Bruce, growing in rapid portions of the river Jordan, where he noticed a curious and interesting fact in its history, namely, that the thick stems, which have some what of a pear-shaped section, always present the sharp angular side to the stream, thereby offering the least possible resistance. The immense importance to the ancients of the paper made from this plant was fully appreciated, and consequently we have very full infor mation of its preparation given to us by that inde fatigable writer Pliny, while many other ancient authors have also left interesting information upon the subject. The method of preparation, and the varieties of quality made, will be best understood from Fig. 1, which gives a good representation of the growing plant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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