This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...piece of wood between the bark and the timber easily detaches tlje former. These pieces of bark are generally eight or ten feet in length, and from two to three feet in width. To form a canoe, they are joined together, with the assistance of an awl, by the fibrous roots of the white spruce, of about the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...piece of wood between the bark and the timber easily detaches tlje former. These pieces of bark are generally eight or ten feet in length, and from two to three feet in width. To form a canoe, they are joined together, with the assistance of an awl, by the fibrous roots of the white spruce, of about the thickness of a quill. But before they are used, they are stripped of their outer rind, split in half, and steeped in water. The seams are then rendered watertight, by being smeared with the resin of the balm-of-gilead tree. These canoes, which are much used by the Indians and the Canadian hunters in their long journeys in the interior, are extremely light, and can be carried on a man's shoulders from one lake or river to another. A canoe capable of holding four persons and their baggage, will weigh from forty to fifty pounds only. Other vessels are made of the same material, which are sufficiently large to contain fifteen people. These are the advantages derived from the Birch in America; but in Sweden and Russia, the European species, the White Birch, is of still greater service. The Russia leather, which is so well known for its valuable property of resisting the attacks of insects, is prepared with a kind of balsamic extract from the Birch. The Laplanders use the same extract to tan the hides of the Rein Deer, and they stain their cordage of a red colour with an infusion of the leaves. A good vinegar is made from the sap, as well as an intoxicating drink; the Finlanders use the young leaves as tea, and the Laplanders and natives of Greenland peel off the inner cellular portion of the bark, and mix it with their food. The Birch is raised from seed, which is sown in the beginning of March, in beds three feet and a half wide; the seeds are to be...
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