 ... close the mouth of the spring : sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring, which is resisted in one place, breaks out in another. Some of the springs, which have not been long open, form a mouth of...  Transactions - Page 591890Full view - About this book
 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 270 pages
...as black as pitch; but when a fpring is refilled in one place, It breaks out in another ; fome that have not been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. It is unpleafant to the fmell, and is moftly ufed by the poor among the Pedant and the neighbouring... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring ; sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch ; but the spring which is resisted...another. Some of the springs which have not been long opened form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. "The people curry the naphtha by troughs into pits... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Petrology - 1811 - 694 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite dosed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch ; but the spring which is resisted...another. Some of the springs, which have not been long opened, form a mouth of 8 or 10 feet diameter. " The people carry the naptha, by troughs, into pits... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Petrology - 1811 - 734 pages
...mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as patch ; •but the spring which is resisted in one place,...another. Some of the springs, which have not been long opened, form a mouth of '8 or 1O feet diameter. " The people carry the 'naptha, by troughs, into pits... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring ; sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch ; but the spring which is resisted...another. Some of the springs which have not been long opened form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku (Azerbaijan) - 1884 - 540 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring : sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring, which is resisted...been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. " The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it off from one... | |
 | Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charles Albert Ashburner - Natural gas - 1887 - 532 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite closed and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring which is resisted...springs which have not been long open form a mouth eight feet or ten feet in diameter. The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs,... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku - 1891 - 470 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring : sometimes it is quite closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring, which is resisted...open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet in diameter. " The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another,... | |
 | Hans Hoefer, Alexander Veith - Gas industry - 1894 - 804 pages
...almost to close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite closed and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring which is resisted...springs which have not been long open form a mouth eight or ten feet in diameter. The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1896 - 478 pages
...almost close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite . closed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the spring which is resisted...springs which have not been long open form a mouth of 8 or 10 feet diameter. The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it... | |
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