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small end ; these long strips arc caWed^landtr, and used as tliread 

 to sew the guts : the mucous membrane is then removed, and the 

 thick end of the intestine cut ofF for this use in tlie length of about 

 eight feet. If these skins are to be sent to a distance, they are 

 salted for two or three days, and then repacked with fresh salt. — 

 Condoms^ Armour^ Baitdrnchpsi^ Redim/nfes Am/Iaiscs. The intes- 

 tina caeca of sheep soaked for some hours in water, turned inside 

 out, macerated again in weak alkaline ley changed every twelve 

 hours, scraped carefullv to abstract the mucous membrane, leaving 

 the peritoneal and muscular coats ; then exposed to the vapour of 

 burning brimstone, and afterwards washed with soap and water ; 

 they are then blown up, dried, cut to the length of seven or eight 

 inches, and bordered at tlie open entl with a riband : used to pre- 

 vent venereal infection, or pregnancy. — Bdudnichesi ^fines. The 

 blind guts are soaked in weak ley, then turned inside out, and 

 dressed as before: soaked again in ley, brimstoned, drawn smooth 

 upon oiled moulds of a proper size, observing that the external 

 coat of the gut is next the mould, and dried. — B. superfines. The 

 baudruches fines are washed in two soapy waters, after soaking 

 twenty-four hours in them, and very carefully dressed with the 

 knife ; then soaked in hard water for three days, the water being 

 often changed ; dried with a clean cloth, scented with essences, 

 and being stretched on a glass mould, rubbed with a glass to polish 

 them. — B. superfines donhlesi. The baudruche in its moist state 

 being on the mould, another is drawn over it also moist, when the 

 two insides adhere together. — Canephi. The fiower, or epidermis, 

 torn from the skins, after soaking in water, to make chamois 

 leather; larger pieces used to make gloves, i^m/cA cliickni sJdn 

 (jhres^ packed and sold in a gilt walnut shell, also fans and some 

 other toys ; middling pieces used to wipe fine cutlery ; small to 

 rub out pencil lines, which it takes out cleaner than Indian 

 rubber. 



Coarse catgut. From the intestines, by removing the mucous 

 and peritoneal membranes, then soaking them in water, to each 

 gallon of which is added an oz. of potash and another of pcarlash, 

 then scraping them with a copper plate having a semicircular notch, 

 twisting them according to their uses, sometimes colouring them, 

 as for whips, with ink, red ink, or sap green, and exposing them 

 to the fumc»s of burning brimstone for two or three times: used 

 for tennis rackets, whips, hatmakers' bows, and ckx:k-work. — /'////' 

 catfjut. The mucous and peritoneal membranes are removed with 



I great care, they are then s<3aked for a day or two in water to which 

 potanh is added, then removed to water impregnated with burnt 

 lees of wine, which is made stronger by degrees, scra[)ing theni 

 fcarefully to separate the fat. As s(K)n as the intestines begin to 

 Hoat, they are immediately taken out, twisted, brimstoned, again 

 twisted, and dried; when suflieiciitly (hied, the catgut is rubbed 



