Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 482
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… … CEYLONESE BOOK. FIG. 3. name beech. On the smooth bark of the beechthe Saxons used to write with the sharp pointof the thorn. 958 BOOKS OF OLDEN TIMES. [Oct. Even now, in some countries, leaves of trees areused for books. In Ceylon, the leaves of thetalipot, a tree common on that island, are…
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