Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as Recommend Themselves by Their Novelty, Rarity, Or History, Or by the Uses to which They are Applied in the Arts, in Medicine, and in Domestic Oeconomy; Together with Occasional Botanical Notices and Information, Volumen 1Sir William Jackson Hooker J. Murray., 1830 |
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Página 29 - to the strength of the gang, and the distance generally from six to ten miles. We will, for example, take a gang of forty men, capable of working six trucks, each of which requires seven pair of oxen and two drivers; sixteen to cut food for the cattle, and twelve to load or put the logs on the carriages; the
Página 29 - latter usually take up a temporary residence somewhere near the main body of the wood, it being too far to go and return each day to the river side or chief establishment. From the intense heat of the sun, the cattle are unable to work during its influence; consequently they are obliged to use the nighttime
Página 29 - before mentioned, being now at their station in the forest, the trucks set off from the barquadier about 6 o'clock in the evening, and arrive at their different places of loading about 11 or 12 o'clock at night; when the loaders, who are then asleep, are warned of the approach of the trucks by the cracking of
Página 28 - superficial feet, or 15 tons weight.* The sawing being now completed, the logs are separated one from the other, and placed in whatever position will admit of the largest square being formed, according to the shape which the end of each log presents, and is then reduced, by means of the axe,
Página 30 - with the still hour of midnight, makes it wear more the appearance of some theatrical exhibition than what it really is,—the pursuit of industry which has fallen to the lot of the Honduras woodcutter. About the end of May the periodical rains again
Página 28 - constantly kept in readiness to add to the usual number, according to the weight of the log: this becomes unavoidable, owing to the very great difference of size of the mahogany trees : the logs taken from one tree being about three hundred feet, while those from the next may be as many thousand
Página 26 - but it is very rarely that an accident happens to the people engaged in it. The trunk of the tree, from the dimensions of the wood it furnishes, is deemed the most valuable
Página 26 - with no other implement than the axe, consequently every workman is capable of performing the labour required to build his own dwelling. After completing- this establishment, a main road is opened for it, in as near a direction as possible to the centre of the body of trees so felled, into which branch or
Página 31 - are taken out of the water and undergo a second process of the axe to make the surface smooth ; the ends, which are frequently split and rent, by being dashed against rocks in the river
Página 31 - in pit-pans (a kind of flat-bottomed canoe), to disengage them from the branches of the overhanging trees, until they are stopped by a boom placed in some situation convenient to the mouth of the river. Each gang then separates its own cutting by the marks on the ends of the logs, and forms them into large rafts: in which state they are brought down