 | William Derham - 1754 - 506 pages
...Rain-Water; and this Water refreflies the Leaves, and nouriflies the Root. When we find! thefe Pines, we flick our Knives into the Leaves, juft above the...Hats, as I have done many Times to my great Relief. Davipier's Voy. to Camfeachy, Ch. 2. p. 56. (dd; Navarttte tells us of a Tree called the Bejuco, which... | |
 | William Derham - 1768 - 502 pages
...; and this Water, refreshes the Leaves, and nourifhes the Root. When we find, thefe Pines, we ftick our Knives into the Leaves, juft above the. Root,...lets out the Water, which we catch in our Hats,, as Vegetables peculiarly UfefuL 423 able Provifion niade for fome Countries fubject to Drought, that when... | |
 | John Wesley - 1787 - 726 pages
...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 - 490 pages
...rain water ; and this water refrefhes the leaves and nourifhes the root. When we find thefe pines, we flick our knives into the leaves juft 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 - 188 pages
...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 - 420 pages
...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 - 186 pages
...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 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 272 pages
...Chinese pitcher plant ? In what manner does the Tillandsia retain and preserve water for the use of man " that lets out the water, which we catch in our hats, as I have done many times to my great relief." We have one native plant growing in the peat bogs of New ' England, whose leaves hold water. This is... | |
 | 1833 - 470 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
