The book Romance of Modern Travel a Yearbook of Adventure was written by author David Bogne Publisher London Here you can read free online of Romance of Modern Travel a Yearbook of Adventure book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Romance of Modern Travel a Yearbook of Adventure a good or bad book?
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Their hearts melted at my oration, and after a while, to my great gratification, they withdrew, and I hurried oflf, as fast as I could go, to my tent. HiKjeL '• Voyage en Kashmir. " INGENUITY OF CHINESE WORKMEN. Many of the common manipulations of Chinese workmen afford good examples of their ingenious modes of attaining the same end which is elsewhere reached by other machinery. For instance, the baker places his fire on a large iron plate worked by a crane, and swings it over a shallow pan em...bedded in masonry, in which the cakes and pastry are laid, and INGENUITY OF CHINESE WORKMEN. 179 soon baked. The price of fuel compels its economical use wherever it is employed, of which the mode of burning shells to lime affords a good example. A low wall is built around a space ten or twelve feet across, in the middle of which is a hole communicat- ing underneath the wall by a passage with an opening, where the fire is urged by means of a fan turned by the feet. The wood is loosely laid over the bottom of the area, and the fire kindled at the orifice in the centre, and fanned into a blaze as the shells are rapidly thrown in until the wall is filled up; in twelve hours the shells are calcined.
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