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The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances : including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving : also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts : with appendices on Pliny's Natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, &c., deduced from copious and authentic sources (1845)

Gilroy, Clinton G · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 451

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itations. Carpini, who in the year 1246 went asambassador to the great Khan of the Moguls, Mongals, orTartars, says, Their houses are round, and artificially madelike tents, of rods and twigs interwoven, having a round holein the middle of the roof for the admission of light and the pas-sage of…

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