A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ANTIQUE STAND. 106 History of Virginia and Virginians. brass, tin, pewter, iron, earthenware and wood. Largeiron pots were swung on movable racks firmly fixed inthe chimney; gridirons, skillets, and spits of iron, pansof tin or earthenware, chafing-dishes of brass, woodentrays, tubs, piggins, noggins, etc., formed in part theequipment for the exercise of that culinary skill for whichVirginia became famous. Baking-ovens were often ofbrick, and heated by fires built in an arch underneathconnected with a flue or chimney. The dwellings werel
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ANTIQUE STAND. 106 History of Virginia and Virginians. brass, tin, pewter, iron, earthenware and wood. Largeiron pots were swung on movable racks firmly fixed inthe chimney; gridirons, skillets, and spits of iron, pansof tin or earthenware, chafing-dishes of brass, woodentrays, tubs, piggins, noggins, etc., formed in part theequipment for the exercise of that culinary skill for whichVirginia became famous. Baking-ovens were often ofbrick, and heated by fires built in an arch underneathconnected with a flue or chimney. The dwellings werelighted by candles of myrtle wax, made from the berriesof the myrtle, which grew in profusion, or made of deer. LIVING BOOM IN A COLONIAL HOME ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, suet or beef tallow; lamps of brass and tin and tin lan-terns were also used, and the resinous wood of the pine,popularly known as light-wood, lighted many colonialhomes, especially those of the poor. The forests affordedabundant fuel, and the wide fireplaces, filled with glow-ing logs of oak or hickory, dispensed a genial warmth inevery home. Conveyances—Roads. — In the seventeenth centurymuch of the travel was by boats along the water-courses, or,if in the interior, on foot, or on horseback, but before theclose of the century we find that coaches, chariots, chaisesand running chairs, the latter probably the gig of a later pe-riod and the precursor of the modern sulky, had been in- History op Virginia and Virginians. 107 troduced. Sir William Berkeley owned a coach broughtfrom London, and his successors, who, like their prede-cessors from Lord Delawares day, surrounded themselveswith the pomp and state of their
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