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Page 326 - also is cut smooth in that part ; and then they press it against their breast, and with " the force of the pressure there flies off a knife, with its point, and edge on each side, " as neatly as If one were to make them of a turnip with a sharp knife, or of iron in
Page 303 - ... of an inch in thickness. Holding the piece against the anvil with the thumb and finger of his left hand, he commenced a series of continuous blows, every one of which chipped off fragments of the brittle substance.
Page 26 - The ships which sail the southern sea and south of it are like houses. When their sails are spread they are like great clouds in the sky.
Page 299 - Savannah, 1859, p. 19. holding it firmly down with two or more fingers of the same hand, and with his right hand, between the thumb and two forefingers places his chisel or punch* on the point that is to be broken off; and a cooperator (a striker) sitting in front of him, with a mallet of very hard wood, strikes the chisel on the upper end, flaking the flint off on the under side, below each projecting point that is struck.
Page 326 - They come out of the same shape as our barbers' lancets, except that they have a rib up the middle, and have a slight graceful curve towards the point. They will cut and shave the hair the first time they are used, at the first cut nearly as well as a steel razor, but they lose their edge at the second cut ; and so to finish shaving one's beard or hair, one after another has to be used; though indeed they are cheap, and spoiling them is of no consequence. Many Spaniards, both regular and...
Page 326 - these Indian workmen sits down upon the ground, and takes a piece of this black " stone, which is like jet, and hard as flint, and is a stone which might be called pre...
Page 325 - When the stone to be fluked was firmly held, the point adjusted to give the pressure in the required direction, the staff firmly grasped, the upper end against the chest of the operator, he would throw his weight on it in successive thrusts, and if the flake did not fly off, a man standing opposite would simultaneously with the thrust give a sharp blow with a heavy club represented in crosssection 6 in Fig.
Page 324 - Measures. These seams are mostly cracked or broken into blocks, that show the nature of the cross fracture, which is taken advantage of by the operators, who seemed to have reduced the art of flaking to almost an absolute science, with division of labor; one set of men being expert in quarrying and selecting the stone, others in preparing the blocks for the flaker.
Page 299 - The yielding elasticity of the palm of the hand enables the chip to come off without breaking the body of the flint, which would be the case if they were broken on a hard substance. These people have no metallic instruments to work with, and the instrument (pnnch) which they 'nse, I was told, was a piece of bone, but on examining it...
Page 279 - ... grit. The range extended a long distance, seemingly unconscious that stone enough had been taken from its sides to build a city. How the huge masses were transported over the irregular and broken surface we had crossed, and particularly how one of them was set up on the top of a mountain two thousand feet high, it was impossible to conjecture. In many places were blocks which had been quarried out and rejected for some defect...