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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
British name for these hampers was there retained, — bascuda. The Welsh preserve it as basgawd. When Britain was first known to the Romans, the natives made boats of basket-work covered with hides, and boats made in a similar way are still used in parts of Wales. See coracle. Boats of split bamboo, woven like basket-work, are used in Hindostan, and in some parts of South America rush baskets capable of holding water are made by the natives. A two-horse carriage of basket-work, termed a Holstein wagon, is used in some parts of Europe, and this material is very commonly employed in the United States for the bodies of sleighs, and sometimes for pony phaetons. Rattan is, however, the neater and more desirable material. For the finer kinds of baskets particularly, osier is the material most commonly used, but for a coarser basket, strips of split hickory, oak, or black ash, are frequently employed. Osiers are prepared for the basket-maker by being split asunder or stripped of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
e canal was more than half cut through. A canal across the Isthmus of Corinth would shorten the route from Trieste to Athens forty-one hours for sailing-vessels, and fifteen hours for steamers; from Marseilles to Athens fourteen hours for sailing-vessels and five hours for steamers; and, finally, from Gibraltar to Athens six hours for the former and two and a half for the latter. A large ship-canal to connect the Baltic and North Seas. There are now two small ones across the Isthmus of Holstein, — the Streckenitz Canal, 1390 – 98, between the Elbe and the Trave; and the Schleswick Holstein, or Eyder Canal, 1777 — 84, between Kiel, on the Baltic, and Rendsburg, on the Eyder. Ca-nal — boat. A large boat, generally decked, and towed by horses; they vary in capacity, according to the width and depth of the canal on which they are employed. The usual capacity of those on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, one of the widest and deepest in the United States, is 110 to 115 tons of co