ich, dried more by wind than
sun, they used for preparing their food and warming their bodies:"
_captum manibus lutum ventis magis quam sole siccantis, terra cibos et
rigentia septembrione viscera sua urunt_.
As regards the "_misera gens_," it should be said that rich grain fields
and numerous flourishing villages have occupied for several centuries
large portions of the Duevel moor near Bremen.
[18] For further account and plans of this machine see Dingler's
Polytechnisches Journal, Bd. 176, S. 336.
[19] Described and figured in Bulletin de la Societe d'Encouragement,
August 1857, p. 513; also Dingler's Polytechnisches Journal, Bd. 146, S.
252.
[20] Berg- und Huettenmaennische Zeitung, 1859, Nr. 26.
[21] Henneberg's Journal fuer Landwirthschaft, 1858, S. 42.
[22] Henneberg's Journal fuer Landwirthschaft, 1858, p.p. 42 and 83.
[23] Dingler's Journal, Oct., 1864.
[24] Dingler's Polytechnisches Journal, Bd. 152, S. 272. See also,
Knapp, Lehrbuch der Chemischen Technologie, 3te Auflage, 1., 167.
[25] Der Torf; seine Bildung und Bereitungsweise, von Rudolph Gysser,
Weimar, 1864.
[26] Dingler's Journal, Bd. 165, S. 184.; und Bd. 172, S, 333.
[27] Scientific American, Feb. 10, 1866; also, Facts about Peat as Fuel,
by T. H. Leavitt, 2d Ed., Boston, p. 23.
[28] Dingler's Journal, Bd. 168, S. 306, und Bd. 172, S. 332.
[29] Described in Journal of the Society of Arts, 1860, p. 437.
[30] Bernemann & Kerl's Berg und Huettenmaennische Zeitung, 1862, 221.
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