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 | | It is sold under the name of palha at Eio de Janeiro. |
 | | The tucum and the javary would make excellent ropes, cords, nets, &c, well calculated to resist moisture and rot ; and the piassaba, the murity, &c, would readily supply solid brushes, brooms, hammocks, hats, baskets, mats; while the snow-white bast of others would give excellent paper. |
 | | The lianas, or cipos of these countries are, besides their minor uses, quite indispensable to the half-civilised natives for the construction of their light cottages; taking the place (as they do) of our nails and cramp-irons, beams, posts, and rafters. |
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