The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc (1852)

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An illustration from The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc, 1852, leaf 313 — - tised eye the difference is, at first, not easily observable. The most remarkable characteristic of cedar- wood is its great duration, arising from the extremely bitter taste, to which it owes its entire freedom from the attacks of worms. For this reason the ancients used cedar tablets to write…

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