Key to Knowledge ..Harris, 1841 - 268 pages |
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... Vegetable Oils 131 Vellum 173 Verjuice .. Tallow - tree Tanning . Tapioca Tar 112 Vermilion 103 Vermicelli 134 Whiting .... 150 , 181 173 Whittington's Cat 251 83 Wine .. 13 Wolves ' - skins 75 237 185 Woollen Cloth .. 257.
... Vegetable Oils 131 Vellum 173 Verjuice .. Tallow - tree Tanning . Tapioca Tar 112 Vermilion 103 Vermicelli 134 Whiting .... 150 , 181 173 Whittington's Cat 251 83 Wine .. 13 Wolves ' - skins 75 237 185 Woollen Cloth .. 257.
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12 SEMOLINA . MOTHER . Starch exists in a great number of vegetable substances ; but chiefly in roots and seeds , and particularly in those employed for food . The potato yields it easily , and in abundance . HELEN . I have heard that ...
12 SEMOLINA . MOTHER . Starch exists in a great number of vegetable substances ; but chiefly in roots and seeds , and particularly in those employed for food . The potato yields it easily , and in abundance . HELEN . I have heard that ...
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... vegetable marrow , pleasant to the taste , and much esteemed by the natives . MOTHER . Yes : the tree , which is not un- like the English oak , produces a nut , about the size of a chestnut , which , after being dried in the sun , is ...
... vegetable marrow , pleasant to the taste , and much esteemed by the natives . MOTHER . Yes : the tree , which is not un- like the English oak , produces a nut , about the size of a chestnut , which , after being dried in the sun , is ...
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... vegetable matter . ས HELEN . This is likewise used for preserving meat ? MOTHER . It is ; and it is also an ingredient in glass - making . It possesses , besides , a strong inflammable quality ; but this may be better explained , when ...
... vegetable matter . ས HELEN . This is likewise used for preserving meat ? MOTHER . It is ; and it is also an ingredient in glass - making . It possesses , besides , a strong inflammable quality ; but this may be better explained , when ...
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... vegetables contain the principle of sugar , called saccharine , but none , besides the cane , so abundantly as beet - root ; from which large quantities are extracted on the Continent for want of cane plantations , in the West Indies ...
... vegetables contain the principle of sugar , called saccharine , but none , besides the cane , so abundantly as beet - root ; from which large quantities are extracted on the Continent for want of cane plantations , in the West Indies ...
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afterwards alum amuse animal annual plant Asia beautiful black pepper boiled bread burning butter called candles cannel coal cardamoms charcoal China chinchilla cloth coal colour cotton cultivated dear mother DIALOGUE distilled dried East Indies Edition England engravings ermine Europe fermentation fire flavour flax flour flowers glass grain grows gunpowder hair half-bound happy heat HELEN INDIA RUBBER ISAAC TAYLOR isinglass juice kind lamp-black leaves liquorice LOUISA malt mamma means melted moulds musk muslins NUTMEGS paper parchment pearls perfume plant pleasure potatoes powder Pray prepared Price principally printing procured produced Pub Oct render rennet resins rich sago sal ammoniac salt seeds silk skin soft sometimes spermaceti St Pauls Church STORIES substance sugar sulphur suppose tallow tell thick thing threads tion tree TURMERIC vegetable vellum warm whale wheat wine wool