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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 753 — FUR DRESSES.

William Johnston translation

Digest. lib. xxxix. tit. 4, 16, 7, or L. ult. § 7, de publicanis. In Gronovii Geographia Antiqua, p. 261, it is said that a great trade was carried on in Cappadocia with Babylonian leather. The vestes leporinæ appear to have been made of the hair of the Angora rabbits.

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