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to denqte his manner, as a lofty Style , or a low Style • 
which way of Speaking our own and other modern 
‘Nations have introduced into their Language. 
As to the feveral Sorts of Chart a ufed for writing, 
he obfcrves the mod ancient were made of Barks of 
Trees, or Skins, or were fucli as are called Pugil- 
lares . The oldeft were of the inner Bark of Trees 
called Liber in Latin, whence a Book had the Name 
of Liber ; but very little of this Sort is now in Be- 
ing, except the ^Egyptian Paper may be accounted 
one Species of it. 
The Papyrus was called BiI^A©* or B/£a©* by the 
Greeks , and thence their Books b/SAoj or b/£a ia. This 
Sort of Chart a was made of a Plant that had many 
pelliceous Tunicles, as Pliny informs us, which were 
Separated from one another by a Needle, and then glued 
again together, to give them a Strength and Firmnels 
fufficient to retain what might be wrote upon them. 
Alexandria was the Place moft eminent for this Ma- 
nufacture. There are fome Fragments of this Sort 
ftill extant in Libraries, particularly the famous Ma- 
nufcript of St. Mark 9 s Gofpel at Venice . 
The Chart re Membranacea are made of the Skins 
of Animals, dreffed either like our Glove-Leather, or 
modern Parchment. The firft Sort was commonly 
ufed by the Jews for writing the Law of Mofes 
upon it, and from the rowling up of thefe Skins comes 
the Word V oilmen. But the Skins which Varro and 
Pliny fay were firft made by Eumenes King of Perga - 
mus were in more common Ufe; However, Eumenes , 
who is related by thefe Authors to have made them 
in Oppofition to Ptolomy King of AEgypt , that had 
forbid the Exportation of- the Papyrus from his Do* 
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