The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and of Eastern and Southern AsiaHigginbotham, 1870 - 370 Seiten |
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15 feet 30 feet abundant Acacia Akyab Amherst Artocarpus Assam average girth measured bark Beddome BENG Bombay branch Brandis British Burmah BURM Captain Dance Ceylon Chenab chettu Circars Cleghorn close-grained coast Coimbatore colour common cubic foot cubic foot weighs cubits Dalbergia Diospyros durable extreme height Fergusson flowers Forests of Malabar Frith fruit full-grown tree Ganjam Ganjam and Goomsur genus ghats Gibson Godavery hard height from ground hills Himalaya HIND house-building inches in diameter India J. L. Stewart jungles KAYU Kumaon large tree Linn Madras MAHR Major Beddome Malabar Malabar and Canara MALAY MALEAL maram Mason maximum girth McClelland Mendis Mergui Moulmein Nagpore native PANJ Panjab Pegu Penang planks plants Pterocarpus purposes Roxb SINGH small tree species specific gravity Tamil name Tavoy Tavoy and Mergui teak Tenasserim Terminalia timber tree tomentosa tough Travancore tree grows URIA Voigt Wallich Wight Willde yields Zeyl
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Seite 229 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Seite 108 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Seite 108 - ... The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.
Seite 8 - A branch is cut, corresponding to the length and diameter of the sack wanted. It is soaked a little, and then beaten with clubs until the inner bark separates from the wood.
Seite 140 - ... the term kayu, meaning wood, being always appended to the names of timber trees. The balean is a tree of the largest size, and although its wood is so hard as to be almost incorruptible, the tree is of quick and vigorous growth: it is found most abundantly in the low damp forests in the neighbourhood of the sea and of large rivers. It is much used by the natives for posts of their houses, which, amongst the Dyaks, are handed down from father to son for many generations. Many specimens which...
Seite 189 - ... leopard, and porcupine wood, &c., from their fancied resemblances ; as when they are cut horizontally they exhibit dots like the spice, and when obliquely the markings assimilate to the quills of the porcupine. The trunks of the palms are not considered by physiological botanists to be true wood ; they all grow from within, and are always soft and spongy in the centre, but are...
Seite 189 - Penang canes from the island of that name, together with some other small palms which are used for walking-sticks, the roots serving to form the knobs or handles. The knobs of these sticks exhibit irregular dots something like the scales of snakes ; these arise from the small roots proceeding from the principal stem, which latter shows dotted fibres at each end of the stick, and streaks along the side of the same. The...
Seite 168 - ... extensively and to great perfection, I endeavoured to obtain some information relating to the precise mode of lacquering; but I could learn nothing further than this,— that the article to be varnished must first be prepared with a coating of pounded calcined bones; after which the varnish is laid on thinly, either in its pure state or variously coloured by means of red or other pigments. I was told that the most essential as well as difficult part of the operation consists in the process of...
Seite 246 - The rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark, whilst the outer yield coarse ropes. The rope is very strong and very lasting — wet doing it little injury.
Seite 108 - The branches spread to a great extent, dropping their roots here and there, which as soon as they reach the ground rapidly increase in size till they become as large as and similar to the parent trunk, by which means the quantity of ground they cover is almost incredible.