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

Note 629 — INDIGO.

William Johnston translation

Gum and gummy substances of every kind used to make ink thicker and give it more body, were called ferrumen. See Petronius, cap. 102, 15.

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