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Scientific American, Vol. 22, No. 12 (March 1870) (1870)

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old boxed trees left standing, a peculiar trans- FiG. 4.—GATHERING THE SCRAPE. The kiln burning is generally a frolic, or was in olden time.Few sights have in them more of somber grandeur than alarge tar kiln at night. Its immense columns of slowlyascending smoke are now and then illumined by the… … Fig. 5.—THE DISTILLERY AND RESIN VATS. formation of the wood takes place ; all its pores become filledwith pitchy matter, it increases greatly in weight, and willtake fire almost as readily as gunpowder. In this state it iscalled light-wood, because it is used for kindling, and withthe poor as a…

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