... and being poured from this into another, it assumes three different forms : the asphalt and the salt immediately become solid, but the oil they collect, and the Persians call it rhadinace ; it is black and emits a strong odour. The Histories of Herodotus - Page 358by Herodotus - 1899 - 568 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...following manner. It is pumped up by means of a swipe, and instead of a bucket half of a wine-skin is attached to it ; having dipped down with this,...Such things took place with regard to the Eretrians. 1 20. Two thousand of the Lacedaemonians came to Athens after the full moon, making such haste to be... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...following manner. It is pumped up by means of a swipe, and instead of a bucket half of a wine-skin is attached to it ; having dipped down with this,...Such things took place with regard to the Eretrians. 120. Two thousand of the Lacedaemonians came to Athens after the full moon, making such haste to be... | |
| Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...following manner. It is pumped up by means of a swipe, and instead of a bucket half of a wine-skin is attached to it ; having dipped down with this,...collect, and the Persians call it rhadinace ; it is black aud emits a strong odour. Here king Darius settled the Eretrians ; who, even to my time, occupied this... | |
| Walter Sheldon Tower - 1909 - 296 pages
...and pours the contents into a reservoir, and being poured from this into another, it assumes these different forms: the asphalt and the salt immediately become solid, but the oil they collect; it is black, and emits a strong odor." The oil described was unquestionably petroleum, and this account... | |
| Kansas Academy of Science - 1913 - 208 pages
...then pours the contents into a reservoir, and, being poured from this into another, it assumes these different forms: the asphalt and the salt immediately...but the oil they collect, and the Persians call it rhadinance. It is black and emits a strong oder." 1 For more than 2500 years the disciples of Zoroaster... | |
| Frederick Gardner Clapp, Canada. Mines Branch - 1914 - 520 pages
...it. Having dipped down with this, a man draws it up. and then pours the contents into a reservoir, and being poured from this into another, it assumes...immediately become solid. but the oil they collect . . . It is black and emits a strong odor. Another reference to the knowledge of petroleum by the ancients... | |
| Elliott Alfred Evans - 1921 - 152 pages
...up and pours the contents into a reservoir, and being poured from this into another it assumes these different forms : the asphalt and the salt immediately become solid, but the oil they collect; it is black and emits a strong odour." It is to the Romans that we are'indebtedTfor the oldest record... | |
| 1925 - 766 pages
...reservoir. It is then poured from this into another, and assumes the different forms; the asphalt and salt immediately become solid; but the oil they collect and the Persians call it Rhadimke. It is black and emits a strong odor. Strabo, the Greek geographer, mentions the oil springs... | |
| 1925 - 296 pages
...reservoir. It is then poured from this into another, and assumes the different forms; the asphalt and salt immediately become solid; but the oil they collect and the Persians call it Rhadimke. It is black and emits a strong odor. Strabo, the Greek geographer, mentions the oil springs... | |
| American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1925 - 294 pages
...reservoir. It is then poured from this into another, and assumes the different forms; the asphalt and salt immediately become solid; but the oil they collect and the Persians call it Rhadimke. It is black and emits a strong odor. Strabo, the Greek geographer, mentions the oil springs... | |
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