 As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or three feet over. They also made bark vessels for carrying the water, that would hold about four gallons each. They had two brass kettles, that held about...  A Winter in the Far West - Sivu 327tekijä(t) Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Archibald Loudon - 1808 - 320 sivua
...these kinds of vessels. In the sugar-tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end of the notch, stuck in a tomahawk; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel, to receive it. As sugar-trees • were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched / a tree that was not two... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 360 sivua
...here, our lodging was much better than I expected." — Col. Smith's Narrative. NOTE J.— Page 227. " In this month we began to make sugar. As some of the...would hold about four gallons each ; they had two brass-keltles that held about fifteen gallons each, and other smaller kettles, in which they boiled... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 354 sivua
...here, our lodging was much better than I expected." — Col. Smith's Narrative. NOTE J.— Page 227. " In this month we began to make sugar. As some of the...would hold about four gallons each ; they had two brass-kettles that held about fifteen gallons each, and other smaller kettles, in which they boiled... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1839 - 382 sivua
...these kind of vessels. In the sugar tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end of the notch stuck in a tomahawk ; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 788 sivua
...these kind of vessels. In the sugar tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end of the notch stuck in a tomahawk ; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1841 - 374 sivua
...these kind of vessels. In the sugar tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end of the notch stuck in a tomahawk ; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 664 sivua
...tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end of the notch stuck in a tomahawk ; in the placo where they stuck the tomahawk they drove a long chip,...under , this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1841 - 550 sivua
...down, and at the end of the notch, stuck in a tamahawk ; in the place where they stuck the tomakawk, they drove a long chip, in order to carry the water...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugartrees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or three... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 708 sivua
...these kind of vessels. In the sugar tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the eud of the notch stuck in a tomahawk ; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 562 sivua
...hundred of these kind of vessels. In the sugar-tree they cut a notch, sloping down, and at the end stuck in a tomahawk; in the place where they stuck...and under this they set their vessel to receive it. As sugar-trees were plenty and large here, they seldom or never notched a tree that was not two or... | |
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