LEATHER

the prepared hides or skin: of animals. The hides, imported in great quantities frora South America, Australis and the Cape, are cleansed, cleared of bair, stretched, then tanned by a in 9 strong astringent solution, as of bark ‘or nutgalls, The leather is then pounde! or rabbed, and softenod with oils, Iforocer leather, originally made from goat-skin, roan leather from shecp-skin, and Ru ia leather from calf-skin with a dre ing o! the odorous oil of birch-bark, have specia! preparations. [s. 195]