The Indian Forester, Volume 1R.P. Sharma, 1876 - Forests and forestry |
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Page 100 - 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.
Page 100 - Scotch firs on the distant hill-tops : 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. When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted, I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps. But on looking...
Page 222 - 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.
Page 279 - ... 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 which the trough is covered with a lid of split bamboos and the sediment is allowed to subside. The water is then poured off and the kdth cut into small...
Page 100 - 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.
Page 42 - • "\xsaa».darusi," and between the belts of these trees and in the broad transverse glades which always intersect African woodlands, some of the finest fossil gum is dug. This never reaches the trader, however, without a large admixture of copal from the neighbouring trees, and the contents of the digger's basket are made up with wet sand and small stones in order to gain a little extra weight, it being war to the knife over the barter of " animi " between the Indian and the Washeuzi, — a contest...
Page 279 - 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...
Page 222 - 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...
Page 360 - 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 at the end of ten days, when it ceases to flow. A second cut is then made so as to shorten the triangular piece of bark which had been separated from the wood when the first cut was made. A shorter...
Page 42 - ... probably occasioned by the surrounding slave traffic, which rapidly drives legitimate business and all confidence out of its path, but also affected to some degree by the increased difficulties of communication caused by the marshy swamps which here fringe the coast more deeply than above the Rufigi.