The provinces of Santa Fe, Cordoba and Santiago del Estero are only partially wooded; large areas of plains are intermingled with scrubby forests of algarrobo (Prosopis), quebracho-blanco (Aspido-sperma quebracho), tala (Celtis tala, Sellowiana, acuminata), acacias and other genera. [Please select]
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Others are soaked in a vegetable tan of hemlock, oak, chestnut, palmetto roots, gambier, or quebracho. [Please select]
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"Quebracho is a tree something like the lignum-vitæ and grows in South America." [Please select]
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"As I told you," repeated Jackson good-naturedly, "quebracho is a vegetable tan and chrome a chemical tan." [Please select]
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Some, as you will see, are tanned by being suspended from a bar into a vat of quebracho. [Please select]
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Quebracho can be shipped by water and is therefore more economical, and for the varieties of leather we tan here it answers the purpose as well. [Please select]
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"Then maybe you'll pass on some more of your information," laughed Peter, "and tell me why some of the skins are tanned in quebracho and some in chrome."' [Please select]
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