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LANCEWOOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANCEWOOD , a straight-grained, tough, See also:

light elastic See also:wood obtained from the See also:West Indies and See also:Guiana. It is brought into See also:commerce in the See also:form of See also:taper poles of about 20 ft. in length and from 6 to 8 in. in See also:diameter at the thickest end. Lancewood is used by See also:carriage-builders for shafts; but since the practice of employing curved shafts has come largely into use it is not in so See also:great demand as formerly. The smaller wood is used for See also:whip-handles, for the tops of fishing-rods, and for various See also:minor purposes where even-grained elastic wood is a desideratum. The wood is obtained from two members of the natural See also:order Anonaceae. The See also:black lancewood or carisiri of Guiana (Guatteria virgata) grows to a height of 50 ft., is of remarkably slender form, and seldom yields wood more than 8 in. diameter. The yellow lancewood See also:tree (Duguetia quitarensis, yari-yari, of Guiana) is of similar dimensions, found in tolerable abundance throughout Guiana, and used by the See also:Indians for arrow-points, as well as for spars, beams, &c. LAN-CHOW-FU, the See also:chief See also:town of the See also:Chinese See also:province of Kan-suh, and one of the most important cities of the interior See also:part of the See also:empire, on the right See also:bank of the Hwang-ho. The See also:population is estimated at 175,000. The houses, with very few exceptions, are built of wood, but the streets are paved with blocks of See also:granite and See also:marble. Silks, wood-carvings, silvez and See also:jade ornaments, See also:tin and See also:copper wares, fruits and See also:tobacco are the chief articles of the See also:local See also:trade. Tobacco is very extensively cultivated in the vicinity.

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