This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
These shavings, although originally taken from the horns of stags, or harts, which are a species of bone, are now obtained chiefly by shaving down with a plane the bones of calves. They afford a nutritious and speedily formed jelly.
 
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