Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 749
THE ASPHALT LAKE OF TRINIDAD Think of a manufacturing organization runwithout workmen, without buildings, with nooverhead expenses except the sky, lit by the sunand moon, and heated by the tropics ! All these conditions exist in the asphalt-plantof Dame Nature, on Trinidad Island, in theBritish… … GAS-BUBBLES COMING UP THROUGH SURFACE-WATER. lake of asphalt, one of the rr>-3st precious depositsin the world. It is a great level area of about114 acres, bordered by a few low hills and dotted with clumps of trees. It is possible to walk overany part of the lake, for it is solid enough tobear…
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