 | John Pinkerton - 1811 - 734 strani
...one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier part 'with which it is miKed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to...as we use oil in lamps, or to boil their victuals 9 but it communicates a disagreeable taste. They find it bum best with a small mixture of ashes: as... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring....it communicates a disagreeable taste. They find it burn best with a small mixture of ashes : as they find it in great abundance, every family is well... | |
 | Charles Marvin - 1884 - 540 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring....it communicates a disagreeable taste. They find it burns best with a small mixture of ashes. As they obtain it in great abundance, every family is well... | |
 | Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charles Albert Ashburner - 1887 - 532 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and is used mostly amongst the poorer sort of the Persians and other neighboring people, as we use oil... | |
 | Charles Marvin - 1891 - 470 strani
...drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir] the water, or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring....unpleasant to the smell, and used mostly amongst the poorer sorts of the Persians, and other neighbouring people, as we use oil in lamps, or to boil their victuals... | |
 | Hans Hoefer, Alexander Veith - 1894 - 804 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and is used mostly amongst the poorer class of the Persians and other neighboring people, as we use oil... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1913 - 748 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and used mostly among the poorer sort of the Persians and other neighbouring people, as we use oil in lamps, or to... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1913 - 744 strani
...reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water or the heavier part with which it is mixed when it issues from the spring. It is unpleasant to the smell, and used mostly among the poorer sort of the Persians and other neighbouring people, as we use oil in lamps, or to... | |
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Some of the springs, which have not been long open, form a mouth of eight or ten feet diameter. " The people carry the naphtha by troughs into pits or reservoirs, drawing it off from one to another, leaving in the first reservoir the water, or the heavier... 