 | Marco Polo - 2003 - 484 sayfa
...USED FOR FUEL 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...first lighted, but during their ignition give out a considerable heat.* It is true there is no scarcity of wood in the country, but the multitude of inhabitants... | |
 | John Masefield - 2002 - 530 sayfa
...of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted, it bums like charcoal, and retains the fire much better than...first lighted, but during their ignition give out a considerable heat. It is true there is no scarcity of wood in the country, but the multitude of inhabitants... | |
 | Lita Epstein, Charles Jaco, Julianne C. Iwersen-Niemann - 2003 - 340 sayfa
...their own homes. Slick Sayings . . . 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. These stones do not flame, except a little when first lighted. -Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo,... | |
 | Paul Chiasson - 2006 - 388 sayfa
...of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains, where it runs in veins. When lighted, it bums like charcoal, and retains the fire much better than...first lighted, but during their ignition give out a considerable heat." Coal was important in China and the Chinese would have recognized it immediately... | |
 | 1914 - 262 sayfa
...and says: "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...charcoal, and retains the fire much better than wood, in so much that it maybe preserved during the night, and in the morning found still burning." He then... | |
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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... 
