Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 482
was brought into use for this purpose.In Babylon, impressions were made on bricks ofclay, which were baked in the sun, and after-ward built into the public structures for safekeeping. Some of these Babylonian bricks,thousands of years old, are preserved in Trinity College Library, England, where… … IG. 2. THE TALIPOT TREE. no one knows much about it, the characters beingalmost unintelligible to us. As centuries passed on, various materials werebrought into use, and later we find the squaretablets of wood, lead, or horn. Some peopleutilized also the leaves of trees. These werethe first real…
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