The text of the " Manjusri silpa " describes methods for the cutting and seasoning of wood.
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Two important publications by de Vasselot in 1885 were an " Introduction to the Systematic Treatment of the Crown Forests of the Cape Colony " and a pamphlet on " Selection and Seasoning of Wood ", both translated into English by the then Conservator of Transkeian Forests, A . W . Heywood.