Great quantities of salmon and halibut are shipped in ice-packed boxes, fresh from the waters, to all parts of the nation.
Great quantities of salmon and other fish are taken in the waters, and game-deer and wild fowl--are abundant.
Great quantities of excellent goat skins are exported from these islands, which likewise produce abundance of tallow, and good cheese.
The harbour is good and much frequented by shipping, and it receives from the African continent, in its neighbourhood, great quantities of honey, wax, and ivory.
This little tree, belonging to the laurel tribe, of which the bark of the young branches forms the cinnamon of commerce, grows in great quantities in the forests of Ceylon.
The fibres of the jute, imported in great quantities in the last few years, especially into England, are taken from the stem of these two species of Corchorus, annuals of the family of the Tiliaceae.
The lake-dwellers of Switzerland and Italy gathered wild apples in great quantities, and among their stores pears are sometimes, but rarely, found.
There are numerous silk manufactories in Brussels; and the beautiful linen, called damask, is exported in great quantities.
Sheep and cattle are fed in great quantities on large pieces of land devoted to the purpose the sheep are large, and have fine wool.
The women dig it up in great quantities, steam it, and deposit it in caches for winter provisions.
The obstruction above gave way this morning, and the ice came down in great quantities; the river having fallen eleven inches in the course of the last twenty-four hours.
Like the Platte its waters are of a light colour; like that river too it throws out into the Missouri, great quantities of sand, coarser even than that of the Platte, which form sandbars and shoals near its mouth.
It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt.
Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A.
The people went ashore in search of provision; here we found plenty of wood and water, and fine large muscles in great quantities.
The birch-trees were also tapped, and the sweet juice, which they yielded in great quantities, was constantly mixed with the men's allowance of brandy.
The emission of free muriatic acid gas in great quantities is also thought by many to favor the theory of the decomposition of the salt contained in sea-water.
England takes from Ireland woollen yarn, linen yarn, great quantities of wool in the fleece, and some tallow.
Then we made a whole suit of gaskets for the voyage home, a pair of wheel-ropes from strips of green hide, great quantities of spun-yarn, and everything else that could be made between decks.
It is of great use in Chymistry and in manufactures: but that which is daily consumed in great quantities is not made in the manner above mentioned.
The nitrous acid dissolves this metal with much ease, and in great quantities; and from this solution a small portion of Mercury may be obtained.
Great quantities of this salt are made in Egypt, and thence brought to us.
The other two found the suggestion good, and all three acted upon it promptly, ranging through the forest about them in search of brushwood, which they brought back in great quantities.
Great quantities of wild fowl whirred about them and along the edges of the lake.
They raked up great quantities of dry leaves, after the usual fashion, and spread their blankets upon them, poor enough quarters save for the hardiest, but made endurable for them by custom and intense weariness.
The seamen and slaves were employed all this day in pumping and baling; the pumps were frequently choked, and brought up great quantities of sand.
Thick cloudy weather, great quantities of snow, and almost incessant rain at certain seasons, often obscured the stars.
A shoal of flying fish passed under our raft, and as there were an infinite number of openings between the pieces which composed it, the fish were entangled in great quantities.
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