The World Displayed: Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Nide 4J. Williams, 1779 |
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Sivu 188 - Ozenbrig cloth, which being hanged up, all the liquid part drips away. When it will drip no longer, it is put into wooden boxes, about three feet long...
Sivu 119 - They cut down the plants as faft as they ripen, heap them up, and let them lie a night to fweat : the...
Sivu 196 - The lands will not be difficult to clear, because there is neither stones nor brambles, but only great trees, which do not grow very thick, so that more land may be cleared there in one week than could be done in Switzerland in a month.
Sivu 166 - Englifti drove the French entirely from their fettlements ; and the country being, yielded to the crown of Great Britain, by the peace of Utrecht, all the French territory was fold for the benefit of the public, which muft have produced a very large fum, fince out of it were paid 80,000 1.
Sivu 145 - ... there are but 300 of them, while others affirm there are more than 500. However fcarce an eighth part of them are inhabited, and all but St. George's, St. David's, and Cooper's ifles, have only a few houfes fcattered up and down. There are none of them of any confiderable bignefs, the main or greateft ifland, which is called St.George's, is only about 1 6 miles in length, and not a league over in the broadefl place.
Sivu 197 - They prepare a circular floor of clay, declining a little towards the center; from this is laid a pipe of wood, the upper part of which is even with the floor, and reaches ten feet without the circumference ; under the end, the earth is dug away, and barrels placed to receive the tar as it runs. Upon the floor is built up a large pile of...
Sivu 197 - This heat they temper as they pleafe, by thrufting a ftick through the earth and letting in the air at as many places as they think proper. Pitch is made by boiling tar in large iron kettles fet in furnaces, or by burning it in round clay holes made in the earth.
Sivu 168 - This, however, is fuller of mountains, which are covered with cedars, and other trees, that afford a delightful profped from the fea. The vallies are fruitful, and better fupplied with frefh water than thofe of Antigua ; and it is computed, that at prefent there are in this ifland about 4500 white people, and about 1 2,000 negroes.
Sivu 149 - ... in the world, but the beautiful colours wherewith they are adorned, take off" very much from that diftafte which otherwife the fight of creatures of this kind, and of fo enormous a fize, would naturally occafion. One of thefe fpiders, with his legs extended, takes up a fpace equal to that of a man's hand with his fingers fpiead out.
Sivu 146 - Indeed all thefe iflands are fo environed with rocks, that they feem to threaten all the mips that venture on the coaft with prefent deftruftion } and fo many have been wrecked upon them, that the Spaniards gave them the name of Los Diabolos, or the Devil's Iflands. The air of thefe iflands has been always thought extremely falubrious , and the appearance of every thing very delightful and charming, whence people have been accuftomed to remove thither from the other colonies, in order to recover...