Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 302
with areed pen and thick ink were obliged to disregard the smaller angles and finer outlines, and weresatisfied if their work conveyed the meaning theyintended. There is a fantastic and not inelegantwriting used by the Burmese, a people to the north-east of India, and south of China. This script… … arose from the custom of writing on palm-leaveswith a fine needle. It was difficult to make theplain up-and-down strokes without splitting theleaf, so these strokes were made in curves in circlesand half circles. The alphabet of the Goths, before and about thetime they embraced Christianity, was…
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