Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.28
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.28
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c25.28
This astringent substance is the drupa of a tree which grows very plentifully in the neighbourhood of this island, though I have not hitherto had the good fortune to see it in flower. From a long acquaintance with it I am well persuaded that it would make a cheap and good substitute for galls in dyeing and in other arts. In fixing some colours it has hidden powers which galls do not possess as I have experienced in the dyes of this country.