 | 1760 - 244 pages
...thrufting a flick 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 fu •naces, or by burning it in round clay holes made in the earth. The trade of Carolina is now fo... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1770 - 340 pages
...fire is firft kindled. When the fire begins to burn, they cover this opening likewife to confine the fire from flaming out, and to leave only fufficient...fet in furnaces, or burning it in round clay holes made in the earth. The greateft quantity of pitch and tar as made in North Carolina. SETTLEMENTS in... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1772 - 572 pages
...to burn, they cover this opening likewife, to confine the fire from flaming out, and to leave only a fufficient heat to force the tar downwards to the...They temper the heat as they pleafe, by running a flick into the wall of clay, and giving it air. Pitch is made by boiling tar in large iron kettles... | |
 | 1779 - 254 pages
...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, i Black cattle have greatly increafed fince the... | |
 | America - 1786 - 242 pages
...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. Black cattle have greatly increafed fince the... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 706 pages
...thrufting a ftick through. the earth, and letting the air in at as many places as they fee convenient. 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. Black cattle have mightily increafed fmce the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 716 pages
...heat to force the tar downwards to the floor. They temper the heat as they please, by running a stick into the wall of clay, and giving it air. Pitch is made by boiling tar in large iron kettles set in furnaces, or burning it in round clay holes made in the earth. The greatest quantity of pitch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 706 pages
...they cover this opening likewise to confine the fire from flaming out, and to leave only sufficient heat to force the tar downwards to the floor. They temper the heat as they please, by running a stick into the wall of clay, and giving it air. Pitch is made by boiling tar in... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1921 - 954 pages
...this opening likewise to Confine the fire and hinder it from flaming out, and to leave only sufficient heat to force the tar Downwards to the floor, they temper the heat as they please, by running a Stick through the wall of Clay and giveing it air or vent, in this manner the... | |
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They temper the heat as they pleafe, by running a ftick into the wall of clay, and giving it air. Pitch is made by boiling tar in large iron kettles fet in furnaces, or burning it in round clay holes made in the earth. The greateft quantity of pitch and... 