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APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A.

ON PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY.

Sheep and wool Price of wool in Pliny's time—Varieties of wool and where produced—Coarse
wool used for the manufacture of carpets—Woollen cloth of
Egypt—Embroidery—Felting—Manner of cleansing—Distaff of Tanaquil—Varro—Tunic—Toga—Undulate
or waved cloth—Nature of this fabric—Figured
cloths in use in the days of Homer (900 B. C.)—Cloth of gold—Figured
cloths of Babylon—Damask first woven at Alexandria—Plaided textures first
woven in Gaul—$150,000 paid for a Babylonish coverlet—Dyeing of wool in
the fleece—Observations on sheep and goats—Dioscurias a city of the Colchians—Manner
of transacting business 401

APPENDIX B.

ON THE ORIGIN AND MANUFACTURE OF LINEN AND COTTON PAPER.

THE INVENTION OF LINEN PAPER PROVEN TO BE OF EGYPTIAN ORIGIN—COTTON
PAPER MANUFACTURED BY THE BUCHARIANS AND ARABIANS, A. D. 704.

Wehrs gives the invention of Linen paper to Germany—Schönemann to Italy—Opinion
of various writers, ancient and modern—Linen paper produced in
Egypt from mummy-cloth, A. D. 1200—Testimony of Abdollatiph—Europe
indebted to Egypt for linen paper until the eleventh century—Cotton paper—The
knowledge of manufacturing, how procured, and by whom—Advantages
of Egyptian paper manufacturer's—Clugny's testimony—Egyptian manuscript
of linen paper bearing date A. D. 1100—Ancient water-marks on linen paper—Linen
paper first introduced into Europe by the Saracens of Spain. (The
Wasp a paper-maker—Manufacture of paper from shavings of wood, and from
the stalks or leaves of Indian-corn.) 404

APPENDIX C.

ON FELT.

MANUFACTURE AND USE OF FELTING BY THE ANCIENTS.

Felting more ancient than weaving—Felt used in the East—Use of it by the
Tartars—Felt made of goats'-hair by the Circassians—Use of felt in Italy and
Greece—Cap worn by the Cynics, Fishermen, Mariners, Artificers, &c.—Cleanthes
compares the moon to a skull-cap—Desultores—Vulcan—Ulysses—Phrygian
bonnet—Cap worn by the Asiatics—Phrygian felt of Camels'-hair—Its
great stiffness—Scarlet and purple felt used by Babylonish decorators—Mode
of manufacturing—Felt Northern nations of Europe—Cap of liberty—*