Excerpt from The Sister Arts, or a Concise and Interesting View of the Nature and History of Paper-Making, Printing and Bookbinding: Being Designed to Unite Entertainment With Information Concerning Those Arts, With Which the Cause of Literature Is Peculiarly Connected Posed to have destroyed the manu facture of the Egyptian paper. It is likely, hon ever, that this was intro duced by degrees. The manufacture of this paper, it is said, has ourished in the Levant for many ages; it is very white, very strong, and of fine grain. Perhaps some of the paper was made of the inner bark of certain trees before the general adeption of that which was manufactured froui cotton. The trees which were com monly used by the ancients for this purpose were the Maple, the Plane tree, the Elm, the Beech, the Mul berry, and moat frequently the Lindin tree. The inner coat was used after. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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