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IN connexion with the letter on “Pliny's Water Mill” in NATURE of June 13, the accompanying photograph (Fig. 1), taken by me at Ching-chong-do, in Korea, in September 1899, may possibly be of interest. It represents a water-actuated ‘pestle and mortar’ commonly used at that time in the hill country of Korea for hulling rice.
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GLENDINNING, H. Pliny's Water-Mill. Nature 127, 974 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127974a0
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