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Show 7 PAPERMAKIN is mixed together, and carried away by sudden inundations, occasioned by heavy rains, and deposited on the shores, it then appear like a thin jelly or slime, which, afier it has undergone severa changes natrally produced by the contents of air and water, turn 2y %/fi/. vo. 4 Matthias Koops' signature, 180 into a kind of paper, which resembles the common paper; or where it has been produced upon clear water, it is not unlike superior paper, of which some may be gathered nearly as white g paper." The conferva paper used in Senger's book is of green-grey colour, but even after one hundred and thirty years, th paper s stout and in as good condition as when it was made; ther was, however, no chemical leachin i used in its preparation Senger's pamphlet consis s of ninety-six pages with a paper cover In the course of scarching for new papermaking materials, w now come to the work of Matthias Koops who published his firs book on this subject in London in 1800 The earliest edition o this notable work was "printed on the first uscful paper manufictured solely from straw." The paper is of the "laid" type and bear the crown and G R watermark. ‘There is an appendix of seve pages "printed on paper made from wood alone, the product o this country, without any intermixture of rags, waste paper, bar 1 Historical account of the substances which have been used to describe eveats, an o convey ideas, from the carlest date, to the invention of paper. London, 180 16x27 cm al Imag © 2004 University of Utah. Al rights reserved |