 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 280 pages
...North Uist called Tin-egin, ». e., a. " forced fire," or the " fire of necessity." When it was to he produced, all the fires in the island were extinguished,...this fire of necessity, each family was supplied with new fire, which was no sooner kindled than a pot with water was quickly set on it, and afterwards sprinkled... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 284 pages
..." forced fire," or the " fire of necessity." When it was to be produced, all the fires in theisland were extinguished, and then eighty-one married men,...were employed by turns, by their repeated efforts nibbed one of the planks against the other until the friction ignited the wood. From this fire of necessity,... | |
 | sir William Robert W. Wilde - 1852 - 150 pages
...effecting this design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who, by their repeated efforts, rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat thereof produced fire; and from this forced fire each family is supplied with new fire, which... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 pages
...effecting this design) took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who, by their repeated efforts, rubbed one of the planks against the other, until the heat thereof produced fire ; and from this forced fire each family is supplied with new fire, which... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1883 - 506 pages
...effecting this design, took two great plank.t of wood, and nine of 'em were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat 1 I borrow the description of the process from James Logan's ' The Scottish f'ael, or Celtic manners... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 502 pages
...for effecting this design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of 'em were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat 1 I borrow the description of the process from James Logan's ' The Scottish Gael, or Celtic manners... | |
 | Ecclesiological Society - Church buildings - 1885 - 432 pages
...the necessary number) took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who, by repeated efforts, rubbed one of the planks against the other, until the heat thereof produced fire. From this every family was supplied with new fire, no sooner kindled, than... | |
 | Fire - 1800 - 116 pages
...effecting this design' took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who, by their repeated efforts, rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat thereof produced fire, and from this forced fire each family is supplied with new fire. "This... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Anyi (African people) - 1891 - 434 pages
...p. 113 ; quoted by Borlase, Antiquities ofCwmtatt, p. 130. nine of them were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat thereof produced fire ; and from this forced fire each family is supplied with new fire, which... | |
 | Ethnology - 1919 - 1208 pages
...effecting this design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat thereof produc-ed fire; and from this forced fire each family is sup plied with new fire, whicli... | |
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... were extinguished, and then eighty-one married men, being thought the necessary number for effecting this design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against... 
