 | Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...Georgine there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that • The Region of the Eternal Fire. By Charles Marvin. London: Allen and Co., 1888. have the mange.... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 624 pages
...towards-Georgiania there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...in all the countries round about they have no other oil.5 Now, having done with Great Armenia, we will tell you of Georgiania. NOTE 1. — ERZINGAN, an... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 862 pages
...Georgiania there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...in all the countries round about they have no other oil.5 ^ — """"v Now, having done with Great Armenia, we will tell you of Georgiania. NOTE 1. —... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 730 pages
...Georgiania there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...in all the countries round about they have no other oil.5 Now, having done with Great Armenia, we will tell you of Georgiania. NOTE 1. — ERZINGAN, an... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 672 pages
...Georgiania there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...in all the countries round about they have no other oil.s Now, having done with Great Armenia, we will tell you of Georgiania. NOTE 1. — ERZINGAN, an... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 644 pages
...there is a " fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange." Pausing to describe the Iron... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - East Asia - 1881 - 524 pages
...the kingdom of Mosul, ' from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred ship-loads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' Evidently they had petroleum in Asia six hundred years ago, as we have it in America to-day, and thought... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Cambodia - 1882 - 466 pages
...the kingdom of Mosul, ' from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred ship-loads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' Evidently they had petroleum in Asia six hundred years ago, as we have it in America to-day, and thought... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku (Azerbaijan) - 1884 - 540 pages
...century, " there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...People come from vast distances to fetch it, for in all countries round there is no other oil."* Referring to this in a note, Colonel Yule, who is regarded... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 708 pages
...the vast organization of the Nobels. 'The oil,' says Marco Polo, 'is not good with food, but it is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' And this oil that is good to burn, all through the long summer twilights the petroleum trains are carrying... | |
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Georgiania there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the... 
