Note 605 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
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Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. ii., pp. 454-5. Maguey-paper 'resembling somewhat the Egyptian papyrus.' Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 99-100. Some paper of palm-leaf, as thin and soft as silk. Boturini, Catálogo, in Id., Idea, pp. 95-6. Native paper called cauhamatl. Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., p. 65. They made paper of a certain species of aloe, steeped together like hemp, and afterwards washed, stretched, and smoothed; also of the palm icxotl, and thin barks united and prepared with a certain gum. Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 189, tom. iv., p. 239. Torquemada speaks of a sheet 20 fathoms long, one wide, and as thick as the finger. Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 263.