Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.5
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.5
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c19.5
From the bark are made all kinds of rope, packing cloths, nets, & c. and from these, when old, most of the paper, in this country, is prepared; for these purposes, the fresh plant is steeped four days in water, afterwards dried, and treated as the cannabis for hemp, to which it is so similar when prepared, that Europeans generally suppose it to be the produce of the same plant.