Note 41 — Chapter II · HISTORY OF THE SILK MANUFACTURE CONTINUED TO THE FOURTH CENTURY.
Reading edition
Barrow’s Travels in China, p. 437, &c. Résumé des Traités Chinois, &c. traduit par Julien, p. 70-72. 77-80. The practice is here shown to have prevailed as early as the fifth century B. C.