 | William Phillips, Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1818 - 364 pages
...Indies. In the latter it occurs in a vast stratum, three miles in circumference, called the Tar-lake ; the thickness of which is unknown. A gentle heat renders...grease or common pitch, it is used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from that pest of the West Indian seas, the tered«... | |
 | William Phillips - 1823 - 558 pages
...latter name from the belief that the asphaltum caused the death of birds attempting to fly over it. It abounds in the islands of Barbadoes and Trinidad...grease or common pitch, it is used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from that pest of the West Indian seas, the teredo... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 628 pages
...as in the island of Trinidad, where it forms a lake three miles in circumference, and of a thickness unknown. A gentle heat renders it ductile, and, when...grease or common pitch, it is used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from the toredo of the West Indian seas. The ancients... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1838 - 618 pages
...as in the island of Trinidad, where it forms a lake three miles in circumference, and of a thickness unknown. A gentle heat renders it ductile, and, when...grease or common pitch, it is used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from the teredo of the West Indian seas. The ancients... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1838 - 1116 pages
...as in the island of Trinidad, where it forms a lake three miles in circumference, and of a thickness unknown. A gentle heat renders it ductile, and when...mixed with grease or common pitch, it is used for painting the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from the teredo of the West Indian seas.... | |
 | John Holland - 1841 - 518 pages
...islands ofBarbadoes and Trinidad, in the West Indies.* In the latter, it occurs in a vast lake, throe miles in circumference, called the Pitch Lake ; the...* Our latest accounts of the Pitch Lake are those gifen by Webster in the description of his voyage ; from this navigator it appears that the pitch,... | |
 | William Phillips - 1844 - 834 pages
...the Dead Sea. It abounds in the Island of Barbadoes and Trinidad; in the latter it forms with sand a lake three miles in circumference, called the Pitch...with grease or common pitch it is used for paying the bottoms of common ships. The ancients employed bitumen in the construction of their buildings, and... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...in the island of Trinidad, where it. forms a lake three miles in circumference, and of a thickness unknown A gentle heat renders it ductile, and, when...grease or common pitch, it is used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is supposed to protect them from the teredo of the West Indian seas. The ancients... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1852 - 790 pages
...as in the island of Trinidad, where it forms a lake three miles in circumference, and of a thickness unknown. A gentle heat renders it ductile, and when mixed with grease or common pitch, it ia used for paying the bottoms of ships, and is said to protect them from the teredo of the West Indian... | |
 | Edward T. Blakely - 1878 - 506 pages
...the gravel. In Trinidad there is an asphalte lake three miles in circumference, an4 of a thickness unknown. A gentle heat renders it ductile, and when mixed with grease or common pitch it is used for the bottoms of ships, and is said to , protect them from the teredo of the West Indian seas. The ancients... | |
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Aolona, in Albania ; and in large pieces on the shores, or floating on the surface of the Asphaltic Lake, in Judea, called the Dead Sea. It abounds in the islands of Barbadoes and Trinidad, in the West Indies.* In the latter, it occurs in a vast lake,... 