The Indian Forester, Volumen1R.P. Sharma, 1876 |
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Página 102 - Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps. But on looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a multitude of seedlings and little trees which had been perpetually browsed down by the cattle. In one square yard, at a point some hundred yards distant from one of the old clumps, I counted thirty-two little trees; and one of them, with twenty-six rings of growth, had, during many years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed.
Página 102 - ... years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed. No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Yet the heath was so extremely barren and so extensive that no one would ever have imagined that cattle would have so closely and effectually searched it for food.
Página 73 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 102 - But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a few clumps of old Scotch firs on the distant hilltops : within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot live.
Página 224 - When a path goes over very steep ground, and becomes slippery in very wet or very dry weather, the bamboo is used in another way. Pieces are cut about a yard long, and opposite notches being made at each end, holes are formed through which pegs are driven, and firm and convenient steps are thus formed with the greatest ease and celerity.
Página 364 - With this instrument two slanting slits meeting at an acute angle, are made upwards through the bark, and the triangular piece of bark between the two slits is thus slightly lifted up, but not removed. A short bamboo tube about 6 inches long, with a slanting mouth and a sharpened edge, is then horizontally driven into the bark below the point where the two slits meet, and the black varnish which exudes from the inner bark near its contact with the wood runs down into the bamboo tube, which is emptied...
Página 283 - When sufficiently charged with kdth the water is poured into two pots and allowed to go on boiling. The infusion in the two pots is poured into a wooden trough one yard long and eighteen inches broad, and a woman strains it through a piece of blanket about a foot square. Sitting on the ground she dips the blanket into the infusion, stirs it about, and holding it as high as she can, wrings it into the trough. This process goes on for about two hours, after...
Página 142 - BrigadierGeneral, was most concerned, the garrison, both European and native — to a great extent suffering from boils, sores, and unsightly fungus-looking growths on their hands and limbs; and I found Delhi within the walls a surface of barrenness, covered here and there for the space of two miles in length and 500 yards in breadth by foul weeds or heaps of demolished buildings, with wells and water-ducts choked up. I informed the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief of the state of things, and of...
Página 219 - ... require much labour and preparation. They are at once the most wonderful and the most beautiful production of the tropics, and the best gift of Nature to uncivilized man. I shall briefly mention the uses to which...
Página 224 - The Dyak bridge is simple but well designed. It consists merely of stout bamboos crossing each other at the roadway like the letter X. and rising a few feet above it. At the crossing they are firmly bound together, and to a large bamboo which lies upon them and forms the only pathway, with a slender and often very shaky one to serve as a handrail. When a river is to be crossed an overhanging tree is chosen, from which the bridge is partly suspended and partly supported by diagonal struts from the...