 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...but he, as soon as day appeared, caused a search to be made through the ships ; and having found in a Phoenician ship a gilded image of Apollo, he inquired...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
...of which is Ardericca ; it is two hundred and ten stades distant from Susa, and forty from the will which produces three different substances ; for asphalt,...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
...Ardericca ; it is two hundred and ten stades distant from Susa, and forty from the will which Droducea three different substances ; for asphalt, salt, and...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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... 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. 
