This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... and beast of burden to these people; supplies them with milk and flesh, and its skin forms their raiment and the covering of their tents. LESSON III.--SOME SPECIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTS. Leather.--The climatic extremes of the Temperate and Northern realms very early forced man to protect himself with some sort of covering. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... and beast of burden to these people; supplies them with milk and flesh, and its skin forms their raiment and the covering of their tents. LESSON III.--SOME SPECIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTS. Leather.--The climatic extremes of the Temperate and Northern realms very early forced man to protect himself with some sort of covering. The fresh skins stripped from wild animals were undoubtedly the first covering of the human species. The more or less rapid decomposition of these skins gradually developed an art directed toward their preservation, and we find the tanning of hides and their conversion into leather among the oldest of human arts. When and how man became acquainted with the remarkable property of certain plants for this purpose, can only be conjectured. That it arose in the Temperate regions is beyond doubt, for there the oak and other tannin-producing plants flourished, and oak bark appears to have been the earliest human agent in tanning. The production of leather is a vast industry in many countries to-day, the hides of a great number of animals are used, and there are various curing processes other than tanning, such as tawing with mineral salts, and dressing with oil or shamoying. The skins of nearly all domestic animals are now employed in the manufacture of leather, besides those of many wild animals, as the walrus, hippopotamus, kangaroo, zebra, seal, porpoise, deer, buffalo, antelope, etc. Wool.--The wearing of the hairy side of an animal's skin next the body to secure greater warmth must have been the first step in man's intelligence that led to the use of wool as a covering material. The shearing of sheep and the spinning of wool are as old as the oldest history, and stand out as vivid pictures of the early pastoral and home life of the peoples of We...
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