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  • They rode to just below Burntwood, where we were the other day; there they tethered their donkeys and ascended the mountain to get past a bluff, and then descended to the shore, along which they had a walk of about three miles over boulders and stones.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • This is the young man who came in the _Pandora_ in 1904 and was drowned, as it is thought, in trying to swim round a bluff to the west of Burntwood.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • -- On Monday we went for an expedition to the top of Burntwood.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • _Babington_ of _Burntwood_ in the County of _Essex_, an ingenious gentleman, who through some sicknesse becoming _deaf_, doth notwithstanding feele words, and as if he had an eye in his finger, sees signes in the darke; whose Wife discourseth very perfectly with him by a strange way of Arthrologie or Alphabet contrived on the joynts of his

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

  • Green Corn, and he will answer, 'The Burntwood Tetons.'

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • Burntwood is a grass-covered mountain slope at the other end of the settlement, and is the easiest ascent to the Base.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • Thus he came at last to a stream in the Burntwood country which ran into Pashkokogon Lake; and it was this day, in the mellow sunlight of late afternoon, that they heard coming to them from out of the dense forest the chopping of an axe.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • Burntwood it seemed to Peter that he had lost something very great, for in his happiness McKay had taken but scant notice of him, and Nada seemed to have found a greater joy than that which a long time ago she had found in his comradeship.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • And it is very black down the Burntwood, with deep timber close to the water, and for many miles no man can follow by night along its shores.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • And down the Burntwood, between the boggy mucklips of the swamp, a man followed with slow but deadly surety, guiding with a long pole two light cedar timbers which he had lashed together with wire, and which bore him safely and in triumph where the canoe had gone before him.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

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