Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 95
at of kilns, (Germ, meiler; Fr.meules.) Qhese kilns are of two kinds. standi7irf and lying; tlie wood standing on its end in the one,and lying on its side in the other, as shown in Figs. 2354 and 2355. The circle, to be levelled and pounded down, for a kiln of this sort, will be from 40 to 50 feet… … IRON. 91 again in October and November, during the season known as the Indian summer. Wood which liasbeen felled, and lopped, and barked in December and January, will be sufficiently seasoned to char inthe autumn following. After the logs have been arranged, as in the figures, around the three…
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