Laar, A. F. Van De

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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. 1824 Excerpt: ...leather. Other things are also tanned for the purposeiof preserving them, as fishing nets and boat-sails. This use of the bark of the Oak makes it a very valuable commodity; and you may 'sq: people in the woods carefully stripping the, Oaks, when cut down, and piling up the bark in heaps.. Geo. I have seen such heaps of bark, but I thought they were only to burn.' i Tut. No-they are much too valuable for that. "Tell, hut I have another use of the Oak to mention, and that is in dying. Har. Dying I wonder what colour it can dye?-y Tut.. Oak saw-dust is a principal ingredient in dying fustians. By various mixtures and management it is made to give them all the different shades of drah and Brown.-i Then Then, all the parts of the Oak, like all other astringent vegetables, produce a dark blue or black by the addition of any preparation of ijron. The bark is sometimes used in this way for dying black. And did you ever see, what the boys call an Oakhapple?. ' Geo. Yes-.. I have gathered them myself.-'. Tut. Do you know what they are?. Geo. I thought they were the fruit, of the 0-wk-.. Were either of you ever, waart gij een van beiden ooit. Tanner, Iooijer. We often go by one, wij gaan er dihuijls een.' ooorbij. Chained, vast gemaakt aan eene ketting. Barks, blaft. Looks so fierce, ziet er zoo wild uit. Cowards, lafaards. Stacks, stapels. In tanning, om te l0oijen. Ahounds in, vloeit over van. Astringency, zamentreflurnde kraclrt. Binding power, verbindende kracht. Compact, vast in elkander gesloten, Izel"n0.pt. To shrivel up, rimpelen. Liable, onderhevig. To decay, vergaazr, bederuen. Steeped, geweekt. Lime, kalk. Is put to soak, wordt te weeken gelegd. Liquor, oocht. To stiflen, sh.'j)" maken. Turns it, verandert bet....