Sketches in rude-oil
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SOME ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE PETROLEUM
DEVELOPMENT IN ALL PARTS OF
THE GLOBE
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
By JOHN J. McLAURIN,
Author of “A Brief History of Petroleum,” “The Story of
Johnstown,” Etc.
“Write the vision * * * that he may run that readeth it.”—Habakkuk 11:2
“I heard a song, a mighty song.”—Ibsen
“Was it all a dream, some jugglery that daylight might expose?”—N. A. Lindsey
“I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver.”—Shakespeare
SECOND EDITION—REVISED AND ENLARGED
HARRISBURG, PA.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1898
Copyrighted, 1896
Copyrighted, 1898
By JOHN J. McLAURIN
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Transcription
vi“He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.”—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
“What is writ is written, would it were better.”—SHAKESPEARE.
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