Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.7
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.7
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c19.7
There are other vegetable substances used here for the purpose of rope making; one of them is a species of the hibiscus, a description of which I propose for the subject of another paper: I can scarce doubt, but that it is only for want of experiments, we have not a greater number of vegetables rendered useful in this manner. The class *Monadelphia*, of Linnaeus, promises fair for trials of this kind.