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20, LEATHERS—Continued. 
a. Prepared from mammal skins: 
Bear-leather. 
Raccoon-leather, used for gloves and upper-leathers of shoes. 
Seal-leather, used for fine shoes and in the manufacture of 
“ patent leather,” and by Eskimos for numerous purposes. 
Sea-lion leather, used by Eskimos to cover bidarkas and for 
garments and beds. 
Walrus-leather, used by Eskimos for harness, tables, thongs, 
seal-nets and for covering polishing wheels. 
Bison-leather (and buffalo-leather, buff-leather.) 
Ox-leather, with specimens of sole-leather, split-leather, 
grain-leather, rawhide thongs, whips, léather-belts and 
saddles, and of calf-skins, prepared for binders’ and boot- 
makers’ use, a8 Russia leather and vellum, and tawed, as 
parchment. 
Sheep-leather, with specimens of binder’s leather, imitation 
chamois leather, wash-leather, buff- leather, roan, imitation 
morocco and parchment, with vellum made from skins of 
dead-born lambs, and manufactured gloves, &. 
Goat-leather, with specimens of shagreen-leather, morocco- 
leather, as used for linings, upholstery, bindings, and 
pocket-books, parchment, drum-heads, &c., with kid- 
leather, used in mannfacture of shoes and gloves, under- 
clothing, and vellum made from skin of young kids, also 
skin-bottles used in Asia. 
Horse and ass leather, used in manufacture of shagreen, 
sole-leather, harness-leather, saddles, trunks, water-hose, 
pump-valves, military accoutrements, ladies’ shoe-uppers. 
(Chamois leather, (Capella rupicapra,) used for polishing pur- 
poses and for straining mercury.) 
(Leather of gazelle, (Gazella dorcas,) used in packing com- 
mercial aloes, and of African antelopes, used in packing 
elephants’ tusks.) 
Deer-leathér, dressed as buff-leather, chamois-imitation 
leather, Indian dressed (buckskin,) and for the finer mo- 
roccos, also manufactured into gloves, gaiters, undergar- 
ments, polishers, &c. 
Moose-leather in ordinary and buckskin finish. 
