to APPENDIX. 



Abyflinia and Egypt, and it appears to me, that the fugar 

 or fweetnefs with .which the whole juice of this plant is 

 impregnated, is the matter that caufes the adhefion of thefe 

 itripes together, and that the ufe of the water is no more 

 than to diflblve this, and put it perfectly and equally in 

 fufion. 



There feemed to be an advantage in putting the infide 

 of the pellicle in the fituation that it was before divided, 

 that is, the interior parts face to face, one. long-ways, and 

 one crofs-ways, after which a thin board of the cover of a 

 book was laid full over it, and a heap of Hones piled upon 

 it. I do not think it fucceeded with boiled 'water, and it 

 was always coarfe and gritty with the water of the Nilp. 

 Some pieces were excellent, made with water that had fet- 

 tled, that is, in the ftate in which we drink it ; but even 

 the befl of it was always thick and heavy, drying very foon, 

 then turning firm and rigid, and never white ; nor did I 

 ever find one piece that would bear the ftrokes of -a mal- 

 let *, but in its greeneft flate the blow fhivered and divided 

 the fibres length-ways ; nor did I fee the marks of any 

 ftroke of a hammer or mallet in the book in my cultody, 

 which is certainly on Saitic or Hieratic paper. 1 apprehend 

 by a pailage in Pliny f, that the mallet was ufed only when 



artificial 



* Sir Jofeph Eanks (hewed me a flip of paper which he got from an Italian gentleman, 

 made, if I remember, of a cyperus found in the river or lake of Thrafymene. 1 do not recol- 

 lect the procefs. but the paper ufelf was infinitely fuperior to any I had feen attempted, and 

 feemed to poffeff a great portion of flexibility, and was more likely to anlwer the purpofes 

 pf paper than even the old Egyptian, if it had been drefTed up and finifhed. 



f Plin, Nat. Hilt- lib. xiii. cap. 1.3. 



