| agriculture, planting - 1786 - 554 pages
...little regarded, might be made to ferve many valuable purpofes. In the Highlands of Scotland, the poor inhabitants make walls for their cottages with alternate...heath, and a, kind of mortar made of black earth and ftraw. They alfo make beds of itj and their houfes are thatched with it. In the ifle of Hay, ale is... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 pages
...Highlands of Scotland this plant is made fubfervient to a great variety of purpofes. The poorer inhabiiants make walls for their cottages with alternate layers...heath and a kind of mortar made of black earth and ftraw. The woody roots of the heath are placed in the centre ; the tops exterruilly and internally.... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - 1807 - 226 pages
...of Scotland it is of extensive use ; the poor cottagers make the walls of their wretched cabins of alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth mixed with straw, and (he roofs are thatched with it. So destitute of domestic comforts are these poor... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...little re- vulgarit, garded in happier climates, is made fubfervient to a great variety of purpofes, in the bleak and barren highlands of Scotland. The...heath, and a kind of mortar 'made of black earth and Itraw, the woody roots of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops externally and internally.... | |
| William Withering - 1812 - 950 pages
...in the bleak and barren Ht^l*"11 Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their eottafM, « alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar made of black aA ' straw, I In- woody roots of the Heath being placed in the centre, '• rxternally and internally.... | |
| George Sinclair - 1826 - 596 pages
...Bees extract honey largely from the flowers, which is of good quality, but of a reddish colour. In the Highlands of Scotland the poorer inhabitants make...of mortar made of black earth and straw ; the woody parts of the heath being placed in the centre, and the tops externally and internally. They make their... | |
| S. Waring - 1827 - 122 pages
...inclosed by the proper cup. THIS plant, but little regarded in happier climates, is made subservient to a variety of purposes, in the bleak and barren highlands...of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops internally and externally. They make their beds of it, by placing the roots downwards, and the tops... | |
| William Bingley - 1831 - 322 pages
...of roads, previously to their being covered with earth, stones, and other durable materials In the Highlands of Scotland, the poorer inhabitants make...and a kind of mortar made of black earth and straw : they likewise thatch their cabins with it, and make their beds of it. The inhabitants of Islay, one... | |
| 1805 - 604 pages
...heath: to which they sometimes add hops. Boethius relates that this liquor was much used by the Picts. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages,...straw, the woody roots of the heath being placed in th«s centre, the tops externally and internally. They make their beds of it by placing the roots downwards;... | |
| William Baxter - 1834 - 348 pages
...poorer inhabitants cover their cabins with it instead of thatch ; they also construct the walls of their cottages with alternate layers of Heath, and...woody roots of the Heath being placed in the centre, and the tops externally and internally. The hardy Highlanders frequently nrake beds cf it, laying the... | |
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