 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 706 pages
...also issues a similar flame. " The earth round this place for above two miles, has this surprising property, that, by taking up two or three inches of the surface and applying a lii'e coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 660 pages
...Naphtha, or pure rock-oil, on the western shores of the Caspian Sea. The earth about these springs has the property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part uncovered immediately takes fire, the flame however only heating but not consuming the soil.... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...•v. ill catch fire, and burn like a taper. In some parts of Persia the earth has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire almost before the coal touches the earth ; the flame... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pages
...earth that will catch fire and burn like a taper. In some parts of Persia the earth has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire almost before the coal touches the earth; tne flame... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...will continue to the end of the world. The earth round this place, for two miles, has this surprising property, that, by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The flame... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...lees than forty thousand rubles. " The earth round this place, for above two mihs, has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth : the... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 pages
...round this place [a place about 10 miles NE by E from the city of Bakuin Persia] has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...long and about three feet broad, out of which issues a constant flame of the colour and nature alieady described. When the wind blows it sometimes rises...coal to it, the part so uncovered immediately takes tire, almost before the coal touches the earth. The flame makes the soil hot, but does not consume... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...there also issues a similar flame. The earth round this place for above two miles has this surprising property, that, by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth ; the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1848 - 418 pages
...a distance almost incredible. The soil round Baku has also this singular property, that, on digging up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth ; the... | |
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The earth round the place, for above two miles, has this surprising property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface, and applying a live coal, the part which is so uncovered immediately takes fire, almost before the coal touches the earth... 
