It also brings to these boreal regions quantities of floating material, such as the trunks of palm-trees and other substances suitable for fuel, to which useful purpose they are put at the Lofoden fishing hamlets and also on the shores of the main-land.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The fire, as he describes it, is made of ship-wood: for it burns in all the beautiful colours which denote the presence of metallic substances and salts; and as his fancy reconstructs the ship, it also raises the vision of a distant coast well known to his companion and to himself.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Another cause that has largely contributed to render experiments on animals so barren of results must be sought in the injudicious selection of substances intended to serve as antidotes.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller