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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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A FIELD OF DP:RRICKS—EFFECT OF A TORPEDO. Vol. LXXII.—No. 428.-17 236 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 a.d. 636, the period ofthe Saracen conquest, pilgrimages weremade to its shrines by fire-worshippers.Hindoos 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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