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The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's (sic) Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources (1873)

Practical Manufacturer, Yates, James, 1789-1871. Textrinum antiquorum · Boston : Printed for the author · leaf 208

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tric-net of a conic spider (Epeira conica, Walck.)on the framework of the deck, and as it was covered withflakes of soot from the smoke of the engine, we were surprisedto see a spider at work on it; for, in order to be useful, this sortof net must be clean. Upon observing it a little closely,… … : SILKEN MATERIAL OF THE SPIDER. 173 light. When she had cleared off all the sooted lines, she beganto replace them in the usual way; but the arrival of the boatat Mentz put an end to our observations. Bloomfield, thepoet, having observed the disappearance of these bits of ravelledweb, says that he…

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