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... wool ' . As salamanders were clearly neither woolly nor hairy , it was thought that they made themselves up into cocoons ( rather like silk worms ) , and it was from this that the wool , so - called , was derived . At the Vatican there ...
... wool ' . As salamanders were clearly neither woolly nor hairy , it was thought that they made themselves up into cocoons ( rather like silk worms ) , and it was from this that the wool , so - called , was derived . At the Vatican there ...
Page 157
... wool - bearing trees and the white garments made from the ' wool ' . Strabo adds that the Macedonians used it for stuffing saddles and mattresses . Theophrastus , writing in 306 BC , says that the cotton plant resembles a dog - rose and ...
... wool - bearing trees and the white garments made from the ' wool ' . Strabo adds that the Macedonians used it for stuffing saddles and mattresses . Theophrastus , writing in 306 BC , says that the cotton plant resembles a dog - rose and ...
Page 158
... wool into a lamb - bearing plant . So that once the figurative description had been taken literally , the rest of the legend about how it fed and died arose naturally enough . Cotton came from the uplands of Persia and India . The lamb's ...
... wool into a lamb - bearing plant . So that once the figurative description had been taken literally , the rest of the legend about how it fed and died arose naturally enough . Cotton came from the uplands of Persia and India . The lamb's ...
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Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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