Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 185
t wood we use is lignum-vitae, from San Domingo. It is made into dead-eyes for ships, into the sheaves of blocks, boxes formachinery, and ten-pin balls. It is worth from $12to $50 per ton. There is not much of it in a ton ;for that stick, about eighteen inches in diameterand three feet eight inches… … MEASURING A LUG. they become fashionable. The colors of some ofthem are very pretty, such as that of the Coloradowood, like a blood-orange, and the amarilla, abright yellow. A very costly wood is obtained i88o.] RARE WOODS. 687 from the French walnut burls. They do not grow inFrance, but on the…
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