Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.44
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.44
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c25.44
I may observe to you that I have lately learnt that there is a glutinous vegetable substance the produce of this country which has been employed (I fancy by the natives) as we employ tar, for securing the ropes from the effects of the weather. Mr Philips has seen ropes thus prepared. He says they are excellent.