 | John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...incredible. In clear weather the springs do not boil up above two or three feet: in boiling over, this oily substance makes so strong a consistency as by...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
...a consistency, as by degrees almost to close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite dosed, and forms hillocks that look as black as pitch ; but...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
...boil up above two or three feet : in boiling over, this oily substance makes so strong a consistence as by degrees almost to close the mouth of the spring...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... | |
 | Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charles Albert Ashburner - Natural gas - 1887 - 532 pages
...quantities to a distance almost incredible. In clear weather the springs do not boil up above two feet or three feet ; in boiling over, the oily substance...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,... | |
 | Hans Hoefer, Alexander Veith - Gas industry - 1894 - 804 pages
...surface of the earth, and 1 1 verst = 3501 feet. s Victor Ragosin, " Die Naphta und die Naphtaindustrie." runs in a flame into the sea in great quantities to...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
...3 feet ; in boiling over, the oily substance makes so strong a consistency as by degrees to almost close the mouth of the spring; sometimes it is quite...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... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1922 - 454 pages
...3 feet ; in boiling over, the oily substance makes so strong a consistency as by degrees to almost close the mouth of the spring ; sometimes it is quite...forms hillocks that look as black as pitch, but the sp1ing which is resisted in one place breaks out in another. Some of the springs which have not been... | |
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Some of the 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, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water or the heavier... 