| Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 312 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle...make candles, which are never greasy to the touch, nor melt with lying in the hottest weather ; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell... | |
| Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 324 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle...make candles, which are never greasy to the touch, nor melt \\ith lying in the hottest weather ; neither does the snuff of these ever oflend the smell... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 294 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near marly of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle...make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell,... | |
| John Thomas SCHARF - 1874 - 774 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the Sea and Bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows Myrtle, bearing a berry of which they make a hard, brittle...transparent. Of this they make candles, which are never greasie to the touch, nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither docs the snuff of these ever... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 788 Seiten
...all along upon the Sea and Bay. and near many oí' their creeks and swamps, grows Myrtle, beari:i_: a berry of which they make a hard, brittle wax, of...transparent. Of this they make candles, which are never greasic to the touch, nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snutf of these ever... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 786 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the Sea and Bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows Myrtle, bearing a berry of which they make a hard, brittle...almost transparent. Of this they make candles, which arc never greasie to the touch, nor melt with lying in the hottest weather ; neither does the snuff... | |
| 1882 - 988 Seiten
...mention is made of the myrtle, and how the early settlers made a hard brittle wax from the berries. "Of this they make candles, which are never greasy to the touch, nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of them ever offend the smell like... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 302 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle...make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather ; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 288 Seiten
...rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle...make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather ; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell,... | |
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