Quote #1603 about colonial life by Alice Morse Earle
"The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests."by Alice Morse Earle
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