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" When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather. They do not perceive that the flame makes any impression on the rock. This also the Indians worship, and say it cannot be resisted, but if extinguished will rise... "
From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia ... - Page 49
by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - 1911 - 317 pages
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The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev ..., Volume 9

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...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 53

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...
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The Region of the Eternal Fire: an Account of a Journey to the Petroleum ...

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...
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 34

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...
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A Dictionary of applied chemistry v. 4, 1913, Volume 4

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...
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A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Volume 4

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...
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Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological ...

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...
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The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Volume 30

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...
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The Black Hills Engineer, Volumes 15-16

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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