Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . A FIELD OF DP:RRICKS—EFFECT OF A TORPEDO. Vol. LXXII.—No. 236 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. been reserved to Americans of our dayand generation. Physically considered,petroleum is a liquid bitumen (hydro-car-bon), and occupies a middle position be-tween natural gas and asphaltum — re-spectively its gaseous and solid forms. Herodotus describes a fountain of pitchon the Euphrates, from which three dif-ferent substances, asphalt, salt, and oil,were drawn. A semi-liquid bitumen wasemployed in Babylon and Nineveh as acement
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . A FIELD OF DP:RRICKS—EFFECT OF A TORPEDO. Vol. LXXII.—No. 236 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. been reserved to Americans of our dayand generation. Physically considered,petroleum is a liquid bitumen (hydro-car-bon), and occupies a middle position be-tween natural gas and asphaltum — re-spectively its gaseous and solid forms. Herodotus describes a fountain of pitchon the Euphrates, from which three dif-ferent substances, asphalt, salt, and oil,were drawn. A semi-liquid bitumen wasemployed in Babylon and Nineveh as acement in masonry, cisterns, etc. Baku,the present seat of the Russian petroleumindustry, but in ancient times a portion ofPersia, is famed for its sacred fires, and weknow that as early as 636, the period ofthe Saracen conquest, pilgrimages weremade to its shrines by continue to visit these naphthasprings to the present time. Marco Polovisited the spot in the thirteenth century,and reported that the oil was good toburn, and to anoin
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