 ... uncovered immediately takes fire almost before the coal touches the earth ; the flame makes the soil hot, but does not consume it, nor affect what is near it with any degree of heat. If a cane, or a tube of paper, be set about two inches in the ground,...  Petralogy: A Treatise on Rocks - Page 148by John Pinkerton - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 362 pages
...lower in calm weather. The earth round this place, for more than two miles, has this extraordinary property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal to it, the part so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...gap in an adjoining rock, about six fjeet long by three broad, there also issues a similar flame. " The earth round this place for above two miles, has...two or three inches of the surface and applying a lii'e coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1807 - 506 pages
...some ptii-ls of Persia the earth has this surprising properly} that by taking up two or three incites of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately lakes fire almost before the coal touches the earth ; the llame makes the soil... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 660 pages
...Naphtha, or pure rock-oil, on the western shores of the Caspian Sea. The earth about these springs has the property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part uncovered immediately takes fire, the flame however only heating but not consuming the soil. When the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...a kind of earth that •v. ill catch fire, and burn like a taper. In some parts of Persia the earth has this surprising property, that by taking up two...surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire almost before the coal touches the earth ; the flame makes the soil... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...EARTH, a kind of earth that will catch fire and burn like a taper. In some parts of Persia the earth has this surprising property, that by taking up two...surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire almost before the coal touches the earth; tne flame makes the soil... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...lower in calm weather. " The earth round this place, for more than two miles, has this extraordinary property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal to it, the part so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...since the flood, and that it will continue to the end of the world. The earth round this place, for two miles, has this surprising property, that, by...surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The flame makes the soil... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Adventure and adventurers - 1838 - 672 pages
...lower in calm weather. The earth round this place, for more than two miles, has this extraordinary property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal to it, the part so uncovered immediately takes tire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1868 - 492 pages
...into the sea. Some parts of the soil round Baku have also this singular property, that, on digging up two or three inches of the surface, and applying...part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire ; the flame makes the soil hot, but does not consume it, nor affect what is near it with any degree... | |
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