 | William Dampier - 1699 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...or a Quart j and this Water refreshes the Leaves and nourifties the Root. When we find thele Pine j, we flick our Knives into the Leaves juft above the...Hats, as I have done many times to my great relief. The Land near the Sea or the Lagunesis Mangrovy, and always wet, but at a litcle diftance from it,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...will hold a pint and a half, or a' quart of rainwater. When we find thefe pines, fays Capt. Dampier, we flick our knives into the leaves, juft above the root; and that lets tmt the water, which we catch in our hats, to our great relief.' The The fame providential defign is... | |
 | William Derham - 1786 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...hold a pint and a half, or a quart of rain water ; and this water refrefhes the leaves and nourifhes the root. When we find thefe pines, we flick our knives...above the root, and that lets out the water, which we cateh in our hats, as I have done many times to my great relief. Dampier's Voy, to Campeachy, c. 2.... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...we find these pines (says our traveller) we stick our knives into the leaves, just above the roots, and that lets out the water, which we catch in our hats, as I hme done many times, to my great relief." Qtie contrivance of nature in this vegetable is very admirable.... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...pint of fluid. " When we find these pines," says Dampier, " we stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." * There is a species of bamboo in dry mountainous situations in the Brazils, the young shoots of which,... | |
 | 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...rain-water. " When we find these pines," says Dampier, " we stick our knives into the Isaves, just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times, to my great relief." Added to which, the water-with ef Jamaica is an interesting example :— it grows en dry hills, in... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...the leaves and nourishes the root. When we find these pines we stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." Dampier's account of all the natural productions of this country is equally curious. The animals, besides... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...the leaves and nourishes the root. When we find these pines, we stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." — Edinburgh Cabinet Library. . Shipwrecks and Sky-rockets. To the Editor of the REPERTORY OF PATENT... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...Indies. The traveller, Dampier, speaking of this plant, says, " we stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." Sarracenia. — We have one native plant growing in the peat bogs of New England, whose leaves hold... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...leaves and nourishes the root. W T hen we find these pines, wa stick our knives into the leaves just above the root, and that lets out the water, which...hats, as I have done many times to my great relief. Edinburgh Cabinet LItnrr. u „.. FASHIONS AVe win be/In with 1ho bonnets. They arc not quite . PO... | |
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Pines, we stick our Knives into the Leaves just above the Root, and that lets out the Water, which we catch in our Hats, as I have done many times to my great Relief. 
