 | The Sanitary Record - 1885 - 634 pages
...travels of Marco Polo, in which he says, ' The oil is not good with food (certainly not !), but it is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' EXCESSIVE DEATH-RATE FROM DIARRHCEA IN BIRMINGHAM. ' SOME little consternation has been occasioned... | |
 | 1886 - 1052 pages
...spot in the thirteenth century, and reported that the oil was "good to burn, and to anoint animals that have the mange. People come from vast distances to fetch it, for in all countries round there is no other oil." The first mention of petroleum in the United States is contained... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Adventure stories - 1887 - 530 pages
...Gcorgine there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred ship-loads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not...good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is used also to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances to fetch it, for in... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 886 pages
...Georgia, there is a fountain 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 good to use with food, but it is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | 1887 - 620 pages
...fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that а hundre I ship-loads migilt he taken from it at one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but it is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku - 1891 - 470 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...with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to annoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances to fetch it, for in all countries... | |
 | Hans Hoefer, Alexander Veith - Gas industry - 1894 - 804 pages
...that it was transported by means of camels to Bagdad. " It is not good to use with food," he says, " but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange." He further states that "at Baku is a fountain of oil of great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred shiploads... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1896 - 478 pages
...Georgine there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred ship-loads 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. People come from vast uistauces... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - Asia - 1897 - 318 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...the countries round about they have no other oil. Between Trebizond and Erzerum was Paipurth, which must be the Baiburt of our day. Even in Marco Polo's... | |
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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... 
