 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1836 - 582 pages
...description of Marco Polo: — He says, "there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted, it...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...description of Marco Polo : — He says, " there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted, it...fire much better than wood ; insomuch that it may he preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame,... | |
 | Thomas Allom - China - 1843 - 260 pages
...purposes. " There is found," writes that eminent traveller, "a sort of black stone, which they dig out of mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted it...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 280 pages
...rebellion of Gilliescop.— Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ip N'.'>. t A'Wood. Hist, of Oxford, vol. ip l72. We have seen that coal in all probability was known...morning will be found still burning. These stones do not name excepting a little when first lighted, but during their ignition give out a considerable degree... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 pages
...description of Marco Polo : — He says, " there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted it...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 586 pages
...has the quality of inebriating sooner than any other. Throughout this province there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains,...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...has the quality of inebriating sooner than any other. Throughout this province there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains,...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 544 pages
...has the quality of inebriating sooner than any other. Throughout this province there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains,...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1857 - 442 pages
...description of Marco Polo : — He says, " there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted it...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a little when first lighted, but during... | |
 | Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 pages
...has the quality of inebriating sooner than any other. Throughout this province there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains,...be preserved during the night, and in the morning be found still burning. These stones do not flame, excepting a litde when first lighted, but during... | |
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Throughout this province there is found a sort of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted, it burns like charcoal, and retains the fire much better than wood; insomuch that it may be preserved during the... 
