When he reached the bridge he saw white threads of water between the timbers of the open frame.

It is possible that the summit of White Pass is not higher than the timber line on the north of the Taiya Pass, or about 2,500 feet above tide water, and it is possibly even lower than this, as the timber in a valley such as the White Pass would hardly live at the same altitude as on the open slope on the north side.

It furnishes charcoal and timber for the mines, and, with the juniper, supplies the ranches with fuel and rough fencing.

He described the timber on the gravel terraces of the watershed as small and open.

The lynxes were in the heavier timber to the south.

There was really no sense of him leaving his snug retreat until dawn came, for he could not make his way in the storm-wrecked timber with any hope of success.

It is possible that they, or their eggs, came in floating timber from the Orinoco: but if so, how is it that they have never been stranded on the east coast of Trinidad, whither timber without end drifts from that river?

Several times the rebels placed batteries In the timber at the farther end of the field, but in each instance the guns of the First battery dislodged them before they could get into position.

On 26th January they put into Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land, and obtained a spar; Cook spoke of the timber as being good but too heavy.

It consists of wood half-burned, and is manufactured by cutting pieces of timber into nearly the same size, then disposing them in heaps, and covering them with earth, so as to prevent communication with the air, except when necessary to make them burn.

For another day and another night they traveled westward, and this brought them into the thick country of swamp and timber along the Waterfound.

Ahead there was nothing but the pitiless barren, and the timber beyond that was hidden by the gray gloom of the day.

The Boy sat down, still staring about him, taking note of the well-hewn logs, and of the neat attachment of the timbers by a saddle-joint at the four corners of the roof.

But see him on the ground, dressing his timber under him.

SEE O'REILLY, TOM. HESS, ROBERT W. Timbers of the new world.

It took several days to find a tree large enough to make plank for the boat I wanted, as the timber around the upper end of the lake is small and scrubby.

On a sudden, a soft voice behind him startled him. 'Can a poor cockney artist venture himself along this timber without falling in?' Lancelot turned. 'Come out to me, and if you stumble, the naiads will rise out of their depths, and "hold up their pearled wrists" to save their favourite.'

They had climbed to fresh altitudes; the timber through which they progressed indicated that a height of at least seven thousand feet above sea-level had been passed.

Andy bought land at twenty-five and fifty cents an acre, and sold the timber off of it at the rate of one thousand dollars for each forty acres.

Furthermore, he had seen the big stranger heaving the great timbers about and whirling the sledge with one hand; he half suspected that the jokes might be pointed with the weight of that heavy hand.

And mentally he measured the distance to the nearest clump of timber between them and the mountain.

The Boswells reported it as containing much more useful timber than the Lewes, which indeed one would infer from its lower altitude.

He had escaped, and taken refuge under a pile of rails that were on some timbers up a little from the ground.

Sent a party, consisting of Phibbs, Humphries, Shewell, Selby, and Dawson, to assist the master of the schooner in bringing the timber down the river; Richards' arm is somewhat better, but not progressing favourably; Fahey is on the sick list; the rain having moistened the grass, the horses did not come in for water to-day; the weather continues very hot, generally 90 degrees at sunrise and 105 degrees at noon in the shade.

At that, the bo'sun nodded, saying that we might get the timber out of it, though it would be a work requiring some considerable labor, in that we had only a hand-saw and a small hatchet.