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PAPER MULBERRY. 
Faujas. That naturalist, having attentively con- 
sidered the process by which the Japanese con- 
verted this vegetable into paper, conceived the pos- 
sibility of manufacturing a similar substance from 
our European mulberry i this experiment he actu- 
ally put in practicej and completely succeeded ; 
forming a paper from it without even rejecting the 
exterior bark. 
