According to Welkner, a kiln of the dimensions stated, which cost, about $1800 gold, is capable of Desiccating daily ten tons of peat with 20 per cent.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
Mammon is slowly stifling and Desiccating Rank; both are miserable deities, but the one is yet meaner than the other.
"What's Mine's Mine V1"
George MacDonald
If we consider that the Indians were desirous of preserving their dead as long as possible, the fact of their dead being placed in trees and scaffolds would lead to the supposition that those living on the plains were well aware of the Desiccating property of the dry air of that arid region.
"A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204"
H. C. Yarrow