 The tea leaves, being gathered, are cured in houses which contain from five to ten or twenty small furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large, flat, iron pan. There is also a long, low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves...  Mental Improvement: Or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art. In a ... - Page 37by Priscilla Wakefield - 1828 - 243 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1773 - 590 pages
...alfo a long low table covered with matts, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who fit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in ths furnace underneath, a few pounds of the freih gathered leaves are put upon the pan ; the freih... | |
 | 1800 - 576 pages
...operator from the heat of the furnace, and prevents the leaves from falling off. There is alfo a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who fit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath,... | |
 | 1803 - 452 pages
...five to twenty fmall furnaces, each having at the top a large fiat iron -panThere is alfo a long low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who fit round it ; the iron pan being heated to a certain degree, by a little fire made in the furnace... | |
 | 1809 - 574 pages
...operator frpm the heat of the furnace, and prevents the leave* from falling off. There is alfo a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who fit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...top a large flat iron pan. There is also a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves ar» laid, and rolled by workmen, who sit round it : the...furnace underneath, a few pounds of the fresh-gathered leaies are put upon the pan ; the fresh and juicy leaves crack when they touch the pan, and it is the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...furnaces, about three feet high , each having at the top a large fiat iron pan. There is also a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid,...underneath, a few pounds of the fresh-gathered leaves arv put upon the pan; the fresh and juicy leaves crack when they touch the pan, and it U the business... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 pages
...furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the lop a large flat iron pan. There is also a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid,...it: the iron pan being heated to a certain degree hy a little fire made in the furnace underne.ith. a few pounds of Ihr ft fagathered leaves are put... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 pages
...furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large, flat, iron pan. There id also a long, low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are...made in the furnace underneath, a few pounds of the fresh gathered leaves are put upon the pan : the fresh and juicy leaves crack when they touch the pan... | |
 | William Bingley - 1831 - 322 pages
...of them even twenty, small furnaces, each having, at the top, a large iron pan. There is also a long table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by persons who sit round it. The iron pan being heated by a fire in the furnace beneath, a few pounds... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1832 - 272 pages
...furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large flat iron pan. There is also a long low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid and rolled by workmen sitting round it. The iron pan being heated by the furnace, a few pounds of the fresh gathered leaves... | |
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