 | Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1840 - 524 sider
...can trust the measurement that I ventured to make from the plains, I should •4 ••• cii H -II estimate the height of the ridge to be about nine...mumiai is procured from a negro's 1 Mr. Edward Solly, Jan., of the Royal Asiatic Society, has favoured me with the following notice. " The fluid is of a... | |
 | 1840 - 734 sider
...procured from the Tukt-i-Suliman mountains, for Mr. Vigne, some mineral liquor, collected, he said, by dipping cotton into the places where it oozed through the ground ; by analysis in this country, it appears to be naphtha holding in solution a bituminous matter. The... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1849 - 666 sider
...at Kohat, 30 miles from Peshawar, it is also abundant.* * Burnes' Bokhara, Vol. III. p. 259. " Amir Khan sent into the mountains for some mineral liquor,...which he told me was collected by dipping cotton into places where it oozed through the ground."* At Narr Topa, near Khanpur, there is a copious spring of... | |
 | Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 2004 - 520 sider
...measurement that I ventured to make from the plains, I should OB* Jff* * "*»' ?:*aff fc .-*, J; i> J (+•* estimate the height of the ridge to be about nine...that it was water which had passed through a bed of tnumiai, the asphaltum so well known in India, by the natives, under the name of " negro's ,fat '."... | |
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H -II estimate the height of the ridge to be about nine thousand feet more. Dark and finely pencilled lines were visible for about twothirds of the height of the ridge. These, when seen through a glass, proved to be rows of fir-trees, waving as they projected... 