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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 354

An illustration from St. Nicholas, 1873, leaf 354
ine as a thread of a spiders web, and interesting tosee men make it. They cover a gold wire with silver,and then draw it as fine as they can make a wire,which is smaller than a hair, let me tell you. Afterthis they put it into an acid which eats off thesilver, and exposes the delicate thread of…

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