The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances; / Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing, and Weaving.

by Clinton G. Gilroy

Præterea Ponti, depexaque vellera ramis,

Femineus labor. Ib. xiv. 664.

The produce of the Erythræan seas,

And fleeces comb’d by women from the trees[36].

Videre Eoi (monstrum admirabile!) Seres

Lanigeros cinere Ausonio canescere lucos.

Ib. xvii. 595, 596.

The Seres’ woolly groves, O wondrous sight!

In the far East, were with Italian ashes white.

[36]See latter part of [Chapter viii.] Part First.