| Edward Long - Jamaica - 1774 - 408 pages
...takes the higheft polifti, with a iingular luftre, fo firm as even to refledl objects like a mirror. This part is only to be come at by digging below the fpur to the depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is fo laborious an operation,... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...dotted like ermine with spots : it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part ig nnly to be come at by digging below the spur, to the depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it, except they arc curious in the choice of... | |
| Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...or clouds, or dotted like ermine with spots : it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it. The Jamaica wood, for heauty of colouring,... | |
| C. H. Kauffman - Commerce - 1815 - 460 pages
...clouds, or dotted like ermine, with black spots ; it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at, by digging below...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it, except they are uncommonly curious in the... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...and clouds, or dotted like ermine with spots: it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it, except they are curious in the choice of... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...and clouds, or dotted like ermine with spots: it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it, except they are curious in the choice of... | |
| 1821 - 188 pages
...or clourls, or dotted like ermine with spots: ittakes the highest polish, 'with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the spur, to ttie depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation,that few... | |
| Thomas Strangeways - Miskito Indians - 1822 - 384 pages
...dotted like ermine, with black spots, and moreover takes the highest polish, with singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through, which is so laborious afi operation, that few attempt it, unless they are uncommonly curious in the... | |
| John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1857 - 508 pages
...or clouds, or dotted like ermine with spots : it takes the highest polish, with a singular lustre. This part is only to be come at by digging below the...depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it, except they are curious in the choice of... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - Cooking, American - 1859 - 396 pages
...ermine with spots : it takes the highest polish, with a singu Ur lustre. This part is only to be corae at by digging below the spur to the depth of two or three feet, and cutting it through ; which is so laborious an operation, that few attempt it. The Jamaica wood, for beauty of colouring,... | |
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