B Dagstios; with Tm T the SUE MAE ot paper fi from the bark 
= T tree dem Ee 
di 
* EB: GOULD? 
“Ton Knuor" 1rs MANUFACTURE AND USES. 
Ed French, in a commercial report for the year 1885, in describing 
follow 
tu 
*" "Ton Khoi? The process of manufacture is simple. The smaller 
“ branches of the tree are cut, and steeped in water for two or three days. 
“ The bark is then stripped off, and brought in bundles and sold to 
arthen jars, and more lime is added. After a 
is taken out of the jars, a having been well washed to 
; e, it i 
i ime, it is beaten with a et [for about 
until it paesani am of pax pulp. A frame of netting 
six and a half feet long, and of width " from eighteen 
in water, and the Lie e pm di c n 
| mixed up in [ water, is X poured out on to the frame so 
asto be equally distributed over The frame is ike en lifted out of 
s and a small wooden rar is run over the surface of the 
Ly zb. Er this process the water is squeezed out and the pulp pressed 
Th 
ace. This is done by applyi ng 
the suri: y a se paste of rice : 
uur to the surface, and then Te it down wit 
| black paper, which is written o with a slate Dedit; is made by 
uri Me xürfuce ^il ur mel i oal,” 
The process of the — having | ‘been thus described, some 
tree itself, and the various uses of the 
m e of dro diens 
e Tae ut which most of the native paper industry is carried on — 
on the left bank of the River Ménam, between six and seven eu 
venation ite retical, and there is : 
à bese inn is ripe ‘deste March ‘and April, is small and ary, 
is not PS to any use by the natives of Siam. - : 
"he in addition to being. d in the manufacture of paper, 
by nati ive doctors for medicinal purposes. It is boiled with a 
portion of "te and, — terme state, it pice 
