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Updated: May 15, 2025
For lightness and portability there is no boat more desirable or more unique than
Nor to the economist of money and space must the cheapness, compactness, and portability of these volumes pass unrecommended." Pope's Complete Poetical Works, Including his Translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. A new edition, edited by H.F. Cary, M.A., with a biographical notice of the author, and an illustration. Poets and Poetry of Britain,
He soon learned to do it himself, and in the years which followed, he had the curious experience of showing it to many Indians who had forgotten how, thanks to the greater portability of the white man's flint and steel. As they walked in the woods that day, they saw three trees that had been struck by lightning during the recent storm; all three were oaks.
The principal advantage of the Polyprosopic roof, is its portability, that is, it can be made in sashes, and transported to any portion of the country, thus obviating the necessity of painting and glazing in the hot atmosphere of the interior, or loss of time from storms, etc., on outside work.
Not only is the 12-inch gun a weapon incomparably great, compared with the musket, but when placed in a naval ship, it possesses a portability which, while not an attribute of the gun itself, is an attribute of the combination of gun and ship, and a distinct attribute of naval power.
Canned vegetables are much to be desired on account of their portability, and are never so delicious as when cooked over a camp fire. Lemonade is always a luscious beverage, but never so much so as to a thirsty trapper. A few lemons are easily carried and will repay the trouble.
If in a birch bark country the Indian canoe, page 260, is the most desirable craft, on account of its lightness and portability. The dug-out, or bateau, described on page 259, will also do good service. The trapping season begins in October, and everything should be in readiness at this time, so that the trappers may devote all their time strictly to business.
Dozens of these pegs may be carried without inconvenience, and utilized in the same number of snares, in a very short time. We have already described the so-called "portable snare;" but, for portability, there is no noose-trap to be compared with the above. We give also a few other applications of the same principle.
Finally, the fact that only a particular collection was taken, suggested a special, and probably national, character in the things stolen, while their portability you will remember that goods of the value of from eight to twelve thousand pounds were taken away in two hand-packages was much more consistent with Japanese than Chinese works, of which the latter tend rather to be bulky and ponderous.
The comparatively new instrument, the aneroid barometer, extremely valuable, if only trustworthy, by reason of its sensibility, portability and safety, was to be tested and compared with the behaviour of a reliable mercurial barometer.
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