 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...  Annual Report - Seite 30von Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1889 - 864 Seiten
...Marco Polo, the Venetian," edited by Colonel Yule, we read that — On the confines towards Georgine there is a fountain from which oil springs in great...one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that • The Region of the Eternal Fire. By Charles... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 Seiten
...confines 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | 1875 - 632 Seiten
...towards the north — where there isa " fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, insomuch that a hundred shiploads might be taken from it at one...to use with food, but is good to burn, and is also nsed to anoint camels that have the mange." Pausing to describe the Iron Gate of Alexander, Derbend... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 Seiten
...confines 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 Seiten
...confines 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 Seiten
...confines 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1881 - 524 Seiten
...describes a fountain in 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' Evidently they had petroleum... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1882 - 466 Seiten
...describes a fountain in 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 good to use with food, but 'tis good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.' Evidently they had petroleum... | |
 | Charles Marvin - 1884 - 540 Seiten
...time of Marco Polo. " On the confines towards Georgine," wrote that traveller, in the 13th century, " there is a fountain from which oil springs in great...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 mange. People come from vast distances... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1887 - 530 Seiten
...countries. Read what Marco Polo wrote about it in the thirteenth century: "' Oil the confines of Gcorgine there is a fountain from which oil springs in great...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... | |
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