20.2.22

New Inventions. Tan.

The New Monthly Magazine 12, 1820

Mr.Sheldan, of Springfield in North America, affirms, he has discovered that the bark of the sweet chesnut tree (Fagus Castanea) contains twice as much of the substance used in tanning as oak bark, and almostas much dyeing matter as Campeachy wood.

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