| William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 564 pages
...issues, of the colour and nature already der scribed. When the wind blows, it sometimes rises eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...that the flame makes any impression on the rock*. Fire hath such an affinity to light, that the same word hath sometimes comprehended them both. The... | |
| Naval art and science - 1884 - 1126 pages
...unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but, if extinguished, will rise in another place." In America, besides the Pennsylvanian oil deposits there... | |
| Charles Marvin - Baku (Azerbaijan) - 1884 - 540 pages
...unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but, if extinguished, will rise in another place. "The earth round the place, for above two miles, has this... | |
| Great Britain - 1885 - 232 pages
...unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will rise in another place." Then he goes on to describe, as already quoted, the fiery... | |
| Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1913 - 748 pages
...unlike a lamp that bums with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will rise in another place. The earth round the place, for above two miles, has this... | |
| Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1913 - 744 pages
...unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will rise in another place. The earth round the place, for above two miles, has this... | |
| Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1922 - 454 pages
...constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes 8 feet high,...do not perceive that the flame makes any impression o1l the rock. This also the Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will... | |
| Royal Aeronautical Society - Aeronautics - 1926 - 820 pages
...not unlike a lamp that burns with spirit only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do not perceive that the flame make any impression on the rock. This the Indians worship and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished... | |
| Engineering - 1927 - 660 pages
...not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows It rises sometimes to 8 feet high, but much lower In still weather. They...Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will rise in another place." This particular temple is now believed to be of Hindu... | |
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