| 1832 - 586 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26J inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree oflightness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
| 1832 - 488 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26¿ inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree ofljghtness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
| Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...which these veils are made weighs four grains and one third, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs one hundred and thirty-seven grains, and one... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square wil of the substance of which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square... | |
| Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 530 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degre? of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square yard... | |
| William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 gïain, a degree of lighuess which will [appear more strongly by contrast with other fabric». One... | |
| Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...and a half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1-51 graine, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics.... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...»pinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...truly surprising. One of them, measuring twenty-six anda half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree of lightness which will appear... | |
| 1833 - 310 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top. carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising-. One of them, measuring 2GJ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
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