 | 1873 - 612 pages
...height of sixty, seventy, or eighty feet. Close to the ground the bark is, in old trees, more than an inch thick, and upon being wounded, yields plentifully...juice, from which the celebrated poison is prepared. In clearing new grounds near the tree, the inhabitants do not like to approach it, as they dread the... | |
 | 1816 - 600 pages
...appendages or wings, much like the Canarian commune, and several others of our large forest trees. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...which the celebrated poison is prepared. A puncture or incisioii being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oosing out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat... | |
 | Koninklijk bataviaasch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen - 1814 - 456 pages
...appendages or wings, much like the Ganariitm commune and several others of our large Forest trees. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour ; (somewhat frothy) from old... | |
 | 1816 - 644 pages
...appendages or wings, much like the Canarian commune, and several others of our large forest trees, it is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oosing out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat frothy;) from old... | |
 | Asia - 1816 - 670 pages
...appendages or wings, much like the Cañarían commune, and several others of our lar^e forest trees. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...in longitudinal furrows : near the ground this bark i«, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and, upon being wounded, yields plentifully the milky... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1817 - 546 pages
...broad appendages or wings, much like the canarium commune and several others of our large forest trees. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour ; (somewhat frothy) from old... | |
 | Science - 1817 - 520 pages
...cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy, or eighty feet. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour ; from old trees, paler : and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...appendages or wings, much like the Ca/iarian commune, and several others of our large forest trees. It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat frothy) ; from old... | |
 | Science - 1817 - 534 pages
...much like the canarium commune and several others of our large forest trees. It is covered with it whitish bark, slightly bursting in longitudinal furrows...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour ; (somewhat frothy) from old... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...covered with a whitish hark, slightly bursting in longitudinal furrows : near the ground this tyark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and,...poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat frothy) ; from old... | |
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It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting in longitudinal furrows : near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and, upon being wounded, yields plentifully the milky juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared.... 
