 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 270 pages
...live coal, and blowing upon it, a flame immediately ifluca, without burning either the cane or the paper, provided the edges be covered with clay, and this method they ufe for light in their houfes, which have no other floor but the earth : three or four of thefe lighted... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 362 pages
...accident had taken flame. If a cane, or tube of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, closed with earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal, a flame will immediately issue out without consuming the tube, provided the edges be covered with clay.... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...If a cane or tube, even of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and close with the earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal, and blown upon, immediately a flame issues, * Otter, i. 208. t Hanwa.v, j. 263. without hurting either the cane or paper, provided the edges be... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1807 - 506 pages
...of heat. If a cane, or a tube of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and closed with earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal and blown upon, immediately a flume issues without hurling either the cane or paper, provided the edges be covered with clay ; and... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...effect. If a cane, or even a tube of paper, be set two inches in the ground, confined and close with the earth below, and the top of it touched with a live...a flame issues without hurting either the cane or the paper, provided the edges be covered with clay ; and this method the inhabitants use for lighting... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...If a cane, or tube even of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and close with the earth below, and the top of it touched with a live...a flame issues without hurting either the cane or the paper, provided the edges be covered with clay ; and thi« method they use for light in their houses,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Adventure and adventurers - 1838 - 672 pages
...accident had taken flame. If a cane, or tube of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, closed with earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal, a flame will immediately issue out without consuming the tube, provided the edges be covered with clay.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...If a cane or tube, even of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and close with the earth below, and the top of it touched with a live...clay ; and this method they use for light in their house?, which have only the earth for the floor : three or four of these lighted canes will boil water... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - Geography - 1848 - 418 pages
...If a cane or tube, even of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and close with the earth below, and the top of it touched with a live...and blown upon, immediately a flame issues, without injuring either the cane or paper, provided the edges be covered with clay ; and this method they use... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1868 - 492 pages
...the top of it touched with a live coal and blown upon, immediately a flame issues without injuring either the cane or paper, provided the edges be covered with clay ; and this method is used for giving light in houses which have only the earth for a floor ; three or four of these lighted... | |
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If a cane or tube, even of paper, be set about two inches in the ground, confined and close with earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal, and blown upon, immediately a flame issues without hurting either the cane or paper, provided the... 
