It becomes very hard, and, when wanted for use, is cut up in small pieces, and dissolved over a slow fire.

The glue was so white and transparent, that I hoped to make window-panes from it instead of glass.
After this work was finished, we began to plan a boat to replace our tub raft.

I wished to try to make one of bark, as the savage nations do, and I proposed to make an expedition in search of a tree for our purpose.
All those in our own neighbourhood were too precious to destroy; some for their fruits, others for their shade.

We resolved to search at a distance for trees fit for our purpose, taking in our road a survey of our plantations and fields.

Our garden at Tent House produced abundantly continual successions of vegetables in that virgin soil, and in a climate which recognized no change of season.