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COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM:
THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, GEOLOGY,
AND CHEMISTRY,
WITH A VIEW OP THEIR
IMPORTANCE IN THEIR BEARING UPON NATIONAL
INDUSTRY.
BY
HENRI ERNI, A. M., M. D.,
CHIEP CHEMIST TO THE DEPAETMENT OP AQEICULTUEE ;
FOSMERLT PE0PE880R OP NATUEAL SCIENCE, UNIVEBSITT OP VEEMONT ;
AND LATELT PR0PE8S0R OP GHEMISTET AND PH ARM ACT, 8HELBT
MEDICAL COLLEGE, NASHVILLE, TENN.
PHILADELPHIA :
HENRY CAREY BAIRD,
INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHER,
406 Walnut Street.
1865.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
HENRY CAREY BAIRD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
in and for the l^astern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA :
OOLLINB, PBINTVR.
PREFACE.
The main portions of the present
treatise on coal oil and petroleum were
written for and published by the Sunday
Merning Chronicle of this city, several
months ago. The number and length
of these articles being beforehand limited,
I was compelled, for the interest of the
readers, to convey as much useful infor-
mation as I could, sometimes at the
expense of clearness and a more proper
arrangement.
Petroleum being a subject of most,
recent study, no books have as yet
appeared which presented a full and
IV PREFACE.
comprehensive statement of even the
most necessary and best established
truths. The fa.cts of this treatise had
to be collected and sifted with a good
deal of labor from many foreign and
home journals to which the author had
access.
The articles anonymously contributed
by me to the Chronicle having excited
somewhat of interest, and having been
favorably noticed, I yielded to the desires
of disinterested friends, and now bring
them again before the public in a more
extended form. I do it, however, with
timidity, for to rewrite and rearrange the
entire bulk of material was incompatible
with my regular duties and feeble health.
All that I could do since the first writing,
was to add and improve here and there,
in attempting to bripg the work up to
the most recent date.
On the manufecture of kerosene oils.
PREFACE. V
the following books may be consulted to
advantage : —
Dr. Thomas Antisell. Manufacttire of Photogenic
Oils from Coal, &c.
Abraham Gesner. A Practical Treatise on Coal,
Petroleum, and other Distilled Oils. New York.
Dr. Theodore Oppler. Handboch der Fabrikation
Mineralischer Oele, 4fcc. Berlin, 1862.
The most valuable treatise on petro-
leum, with which I am acquainted, is
that of Tate, published in London, which
I was unable to obtain, however, until a
few days ago, when it was kindly for-
warded to me by the publisher of this
book.
HENRI ERNI.
Washington, D. C, April, 1865.
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14 COAL OIL AND PETBOLEUM.
boanteous nature the riches of her stores in
agriculture, mining, art, and manufacture;
securing wealth, comforts, and happiness never
before enjoyed.
Without earnestly contemplating the vast
advantages in the possession of the race, we
can scarcely comprehend how much this age
of steam and electricity and science in general
differs from all preceding ones. Alluding, for
example, to the immense national importance
of coal as a fuel. Professor Hitchcock says: —
"It is ascertained that, by the same pro-
cess of growth and decay, beds of coal have
accumulated in the United States over an area
of more than 200,000 square miles, and prob-
ably many more remain to be discovered.
Yet, upon a moderate calculation, those already
knowa contain more than 1,100 cubic miles of
coal, one mile of which, at the rate it is now
used, would furnish the country with coal
for one thousand years, so that a million of
years will not exhaust our supply. What an
incalculable increase of the use of steam, and
a consequent increase of population and gene-
Scientific discoveries. 15
ral prosperity, does such a treasure of fuel
open before this country!"*
* " Professor H. D. Rogers, in his Geology of Penn-
sylvania^ shows that a vein of coal four feet thick, yield-
ing one yard net of coal, will produce 6,000 tons of coal
per acre, which coal possesses a power equal to the life-
labor of more than 1,600 men. A square mile of such a
vein contains 3,000,000 tons — equal to the life-labor of
1,000,000 men. * In coal, this (the labor-power of a man
for his life),' says an English reviewer of Professor Rogers's
volumes, ' is represented by three tons ; so that a man
may stand at his door while this quantity of coal is being
delivered, and say to himself: There, in that wagon, lies
the mineral representative of my whole working life's
strength.' When we contemplate the further and indis-
putable fact that one man can, unaided, and under dis-
advantageous circumstances, mine in ten hours this
quantity of coal, we need not be surprised that Peter
Barlow, the distinguished engineer, after a full examina-
tion of this subject in all its phases, should have said : —
" ' It seems, indeed, a reasonable inference from all that
has now been stated, that man was designed by his Maker
for a higher principle of action — for the exercise of skill,
and for invention; to regulate the action of the lower
animals to the purpose of labor ; to convert air, fire, and
water to his service, and only where skill and direction
are required, to become himself a mechanical agent.' "^
Baird, Protection of Home Lahor,
16 COAL OIL AND PXTBOLBUM.
From tbe long list of most important scien-
tific discoveries and inventions, we will merely
mention a few: as the electric telegraph, the
art of photographing, electrotyping, the appli-
cation of ether and chloroform to allay human
suffering, the manufacture of gun-cotton and
collodion ; of artificial mineral gems, increasing
so that the hopes of chemists have even
reached to the producing diamonds or crystal-
lized carbon itself; Dr. Gall's improvements in
the manufacture of wine; the artificial prepara-
tion of mineral waters, sparkling wines, and of
fruit essences, such as the pear, apple, &c., with
which the English bon-bons in the market are
flavored ; the illumination of our houses with
gas; the manufacture of ultramarine blue (once
confined to the precious lapis lazuli) out of
Glauber salt, clay, and charcoal. Tbe manu-
facture of friction matches out of phosphorus
is also worthy of mention. The use of ordinary
phosphorus being dangerous, on account of
its poisonous property and easy inflaminability,
chemistry soon showed how to prepare it in a
masked or allotropic form, at once perfectly
\
SCIBNTIPIO DISOOVEKIES. 17
harmless when swallowed in large doses, and
safe to be carried, as it inflames only at 500
degrees Fahrenheit. The fumes of ordinary
phosphorus in lucifer ©atch factories fre-
quently gave rise to necrosis, a dangerous
disease of the upper jaw bones. The new red
form of phosphorus gives off no fumes. Still
later, friction matches are made without any
phosphorus at all.
Metals of the utmost value, in a technical
point of view, have been isolated from material
among the most abundant on our earth^s
surface. Aluminum is employed by jewellers
as a substitute for silver. Boron crystals have
been successfully used in watches instead of
jewels. Magnesium has the property, not
only of burning like steel wire in oxygen, but
in the open air, and with a light so intense
that it can be seen twenty miles at sea. It
may be inflamed in a candle, and thus light up
a room, a cavern, or an ancient pyramid with
wonderful brilliancy. It has been ascertained
ihat a wire of 0.297 millimetre in diameter (a
millimetre being 0.893 of an inch) will give
2*
18 COAL OIL AND PBTBOLBUM.
as much light as twenty-four good stearine
candles of five to the pound. Magnesium wire
is now manufactured on a large scale by
Sonstadt, in Germany. Magnesium light being
chemically active, it fumisheg to the photo-
grapher a substitute at night for sunlight, a
good negative picture being obtained in fifty
seconds.
Some of the most recent discoveries prove
in a remarkable degree how far science can
supply all reasonable demands of practical
industry. Considering the enormous consump-
tion of paper in meeting the wants of daily lite-
rature and newspapers, the steadily increasing
use of tapestry, pasteboard, and papier-mach^,
packing, and the consequences of general waste,
the question "How shall the future production
keep pace with the demand?" was at one time
becoming an alarming one. The paper manu-
facturers met daily with greater difl5culties
in procuring raw material. In spite of every
stimulus given to the profession of rag picking,
the supply was necessarily a limited one.
How, then, supply the place of linen rags?
8CISNTIFI0 DISOOYEBIBS. 19
The scientific reasoning amounted simply to
this: All kinds of paper are made up of woody
fibre {cellulose)] the rags are bat utilized vege-
table fibres derived from flax, hemp, cotton,
ifio. Gould similar material, although perhaps
in a different form, be obtained, success was
certain. In looking for such a substance,
common straw suggested itself; this was
worked, together with rags, into paper pulp,
and the industrial riddle was solved, as far, at
least, as the coarser kinds of paper used for
packing, &c. were concerned,
As early as 1772, Dr. Schaeffer, of Eegens-
burg, published experiments on the manufac-
ture of paper from different materials. Indeed,
his directions w^re printed upon paper made
from Indian corn-husks. This discovery was,
however, unheeded, and the process of manipu-
lation lost. In 1856, Moritz Diamant, a writing
teacher, from Bohemia, again directed the at-
tention of the Imperial Government of Austria
to maize straw. The Government at once
took up the matter, and had lately, at its own
expense, a large paper mill established, which
20 COAL OIL AND PETBOtiEUM.
ifl now in successful operation. All kinds of
writing, printing, drawing, tracing, and colored
papers are made of almost matchless beauty.
Indeed, it was ascertained by further experi-
menting and perfecting, that corn-husks may,
by means of proper machinery, be spun and
woven into cloth suitable for bags, rough
towels, oil-cloth, &c.
A large number of beautiful specimens of
paper and other fabrics were presented by the
Imperial Government to the Commissioner' of
Agriculture, by whom they are now exhibited
in his museum at Washington.
Of all recent occurrences in the scientific
world, the discovery and development of the
properties of petroleum is perhaps the most
worthy of notice. When viewed from a
national standpoint, it fairly promises to out-
rival the gold mines of California, in creating
altogether new branches of industry. To the
scientific skill and zeal of Beichenbach, we owe
the discovery of the principal constituents now
prepared chiefly from petroleum, but which he
first obtained by the distillation of wood.
SCIENTIFIC BISCOYEBIES. 21
These are mainly different oils, creasote, and
paraffine, a wax-like body, now frequently
exhibited in the shape of beautiful translucent
candles. The same products were afterwards
more abundantly and cheaply produced by the
distillation of coal; bituminous slate, and even
turf; and this rich field of usefulness soon
became of immense importance aver the whole
continent of Europe as wdll as this country.
A thin, volatile liquid, called naphtha or
benzine, is obtained from coal oil, furnishing a
substitute for turpentine. The proper under-
standing of the process of combustion shortly
led to the construction of suitable lamps for
burning some of the oily products, which, in
point of cheapness and illuminating power,
soon became second to gas only.
At the commencement of this century, the
means of lighting the dwelling houses of the
masses consisted of poor tallow candles, and
dim and dirty oil lamps. What inconceivable
benefit, then, must these modern appliances
to the generation of light bestqw upon the
poor working classes, whose labor often begins
22 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
before day and terminates long after night t
Other oils were best adapted for lubricating
purposes, and varied from the finest watch oil
to lubricators for all kinds of machinery. An
oily alkaline substance, called aniline, may be
extracted from coal oil, which acted upon by
chemicals produces a series of rich and brilliant
dyes. At this stage in discovery, native petro-
leum was announced, flowing in some localities
almost literally like rivers, and prepared
directly in nature's own great distillery. Of
course this unlooked-for circumstance rendered
the manufacture of coal oil, no matter how
cheap and abundant the material, at once un-
profitable. The owners of factories turned
their establishments into distilleries, where
native petroleum was purified. In fact, this
revelation has put an end to the whaling
business, and there seems to be no limit to
the practical usefulness and variety of products
obtained therefrom.
Let mankind rejoice when a great truth be-
comes unfolded and bears its fruit; at the
establishment of each step in the eternal sue-
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. 23
cession which leads from barbarism and misery
to civilization and happiness. But, let us not
forget the sleepless nights, the days of toil, the
feverish anxiety, and too often the pinching
want of some real discoverer and devotee of
science, who, with the most noble aims and
most unselfish purpose, has worn his life away
in the consummation of this same object which
has made the nations glad.
If it can be truly said that the history of
almost every great discovery has also been the
history of suflfering, let us heartily wish for
that happy millennium to come, when the uni-
versal sentiment shall be, fiat justitia^ ruat
coelum.
24 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
CHAPTER 11. .
DRY OR DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OP ORGANIC
BODIES. PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM WOOD,
COAL, OR TURF.
In order to be able to appreciate the full im-
portance of the at present all absorbing theme
— petroleum — its origin, its manifold products,
and their significance in relation to cur com-
merce, art, and manufactures — it will be neces-
sary to follow its history somewhat in detail.
A brief review of the artificial means hitherto
employed in obtaining this invaluable article
and its sub-products will prepare the way for a
more perfect understanding of the principles
which govern its accumulatiop in nature's
great laboratory.
Photogenic oils, and the numerous other
products introduced grad^ially into practical
DISTILLATION OF OROANIO BODIBa 25
life, and now assuming such general notoriety,
were first prepared by a "dry** or "destructive"
distillation of vegetable matter, such as wood,
rosin, &c. ' We will endeavor briefly to eluci-
date the principles involved in this chemical
process. If a small chip of wood or straw is
burned in atmospheric air — or, better still, in
pure oxygen gas — its whole organic structure
gradually disappears, and nothing remains but
some traces of fixed incombustible mineral in-
gredients called ashes. The elementary com-
ponents of wood — i. €., carbon, hydrogen, and
oxygen — have passed off in the form of gas or
smoke, made up simply of water and carbonic
acid. If animal tissues, into whose composi-
tion nitrogen largely enters, are submitted to
this process of combustion, carbonate of am-
monia forms an additional part of the smoke.
On the other hand, if vegetable remains —
stems, rootS; mosses, &c. — are heated in close
vessels or retorts, whence the atmospheric air
is completely shut off, the products formed are
very different, more complex in their composi-
3
26 COAL OIL AND PBTBOLSUM.
tion, and much more numerous. Such an ope-
ration is called a dry or destructive distillation.
The* simplest form of this process, and on,e
which has been practised for the last two thou-
sand yearS; is exhibited in the common char-
coal kiln, which has for its sole object the fur-
nishing of charcoal^ while the other volatile in-
gredients, now-a-days considered as even more
valuable, are suffered to pass into the air. If
hard wood, such as beech, is subjected to dry
distillation in a retort, and the volatile pro-
ducts are condensed in a suitable vessel or
receiver, four principal classes of bodies are
obtained, viz : —
1. Gases.
2. Watery fluid.
8. A dark resinous liquid.
4. Charcoal.
Product No, 1 is a mixture of inflammable
gases; the most important of which are: marsh
gas«=CHjj or C^H^. defiant gas»=C,Hj or
O4H4. Hydrogen, carbonic oxide=»CO. Car-
bonic acidssCOj, and sulphuretted hydrogen
obSH. The latter is particularly apt to ^n-
DISTILLATION OP OROANIO BODIBS. 27
taminate coal gas. It is derived from the
pyrites contained in the coal.
As early as 1709, Lebon, a French engineer,
conceived the idea of turning these carbo-hy-
drogen gases to the practical use of illumina-
tion, and actually lighted his house and garden
at Paris in this manner. Murdoch, in England,
afterwards substituted coal gas for the same
purpose, and made a public exhibition in 1802
by illuminating his residence. Fettenkofer has
lately invented an improved apparatus for the
manufacture of gas from wood, and has shown
that it has many advantages. It is obtained
more abundantly, and has a greater illuminat-
ing power than coal gas. It is purer, having
no sulphurous or ammoniacal odor. In Paris,
they have begun to use native petroleum for this
purpose, and several patents for the manufac-
ture of gas from this oil have lately been taken
out in this country. The process of making
it is simple, it requiring no purification, and
the apparatus is cheaper and lasts much longer
than that for coal gas. It is not improbable
that this now so abundant substance, being so
28 GOAL OIL AND PfiTROLEUM.
cheap a source, not only of illumination but of
caloric, may yet in part supersede coal itself.
It is an interesting fact that, several years ago,
the consumption of gas alone in London had
reached the astounding sum of seven billions
of cubic feet annually. To make this gas eight
hundred thousand tons of coal are required,
while the length of the main pipes through the
streets of the city amounted to over two thou-
sand miles.
Product No. 2 constitutes an acrid -liquid,
known to chemists as pyroligneous acid, or
wood vinegar ; it is much used in the prepara-
tion of acet^ates, such as acetate of iron; of lead,
of soda, &c., which are in turn employed in
dyeing and calico printing. Again, if pyro-
ligneous acid is slowly redistilled, crude py-
roxilic spirit, or wood-alcohol, passes over, a
fluid having a disagreeable taste and smell, but
which, owing to its cheapness, is largely con-
sumed on the continent, especially in labora-
tories, and often burnt in lamps instead of alco-
hol. There is but little doubt that it would
answer the conditions requisite for the preser-
DISTILLATION OF OBGANIO BODIES. 29
yation of anatomical specimens — a significant
hint to manufacturers, when we consider the
present enormous prices of alcohol, $5 per gal-
lon, owing to which some of our large zoologi-
cal museums (as that of Prof. Agassiz, in Cam-
bridge) may yet become seriously embarrassed.
Its solvent properties closely resemble those
of alcohol, all substances soluble in the latter
liquid being equally so in wood-alcohol.
Owing to the high duty on spirits of wine
in Great Britain, a mixture of alcohol and
wood-spirit has long since been brought into
use instead of alcohol. It is called methylated
spirit, and is unfit for beverages or perfumes,
but may be employed in the manufacture of
fulminate of mercury (for percussion caps), of
chloroform, ether, &c.
Product No. 3 is a wood-tar, a thick liquid,
insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol ; it
was formerly used principally as a wood-pre-
server for tarring and calking ships, but later
it proved to be an important source of both
photogenic and lubricating oils-:-subjects to
be more fully spoken of hereafter.
80 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
Prodlict No. 4 is the charcoal remaining in
the retort ; it is used as an article of fuel, or
as a reducing agent in metallurgy.
We have reason to believe that some at least
of these secondary products of dry distillation
were known to the ancient Egyptians, who are
said to have employed crude pyroligneous acid,
containing creasote, as a flesh preserver in em-
balming their dead ; according to others, they
used nisitive bitumen, or our present petroleum,
From a limited experience in embalming, we
believe crude light petroleum, or purified
commercial oils — in that case charged with
some creasote — to be well adapted for preser-
vation, being injected into the- veins in the
usual manner. Be this as it may, it is only of
late that the finer and more subtle qualities of
tar, whether native or obtained by the distilla-
tion of wood, bituminous coal, or turf, have
been brought to light This hitherto ill-reputed,
filthy compound has been shown to contain
quite a number of bodies most useful in the
arts and manufactures. For this reason it has
not only attracted the eyes of the scientific
DISTILLATION OP OBGANIO BODIES. 81
world, but promises to become hereafter an
almost boundless source of domestic comfort
and happiness.
Ingredients op Beech- wood Tab.
Beichenbach; an Austrian chemist, while
operating upon beech-wood tar in the years
1830-85, discovered and isolated the following
ingredients : —
Light Oil, or Eupione, from «v$, good, and nltav,
fat, is an inodorouSj insipid, limpid, colorless
liquid of the specific gravity 0.655 ; it burns
with a brilliant fiame, and is miscible with
other oils and ether. It boils at 116° F. Its
composition is C^Hg. Frankland considers"
eupione to consist principally of hydride of
amyle. The less volatile portions of the
lighter oil contain wood-spirit, acetone, and the
hydrocarbons, benzole, toluol^, and xylole;
these latter may be removed by agitation with
sulphuric acid with which they form colligated
acids. Beichenbach gave it the name quoted,
under the impression that it was a distinct
82 COAL OIL AND PKTBOLBUM.
organic substance, and not a mixture of many
different liquids, boiling at different tempera-
tures, as has since been shown. Its composi-
tion will be noticed when we consider it as one
of the coal oils.
Heavy Oil. — This is collected after the eu-
pione has almost ceased to distil over. It is a
fatty mixture, containing some of the sub-
stances belonging to the light oil, and several
oils heavier than water, namely :—
Ptcamarj from pix and amarus, is a viscid,
colorless, oily liquid of an intensely bitter taste.
To this principle tar owes its bitterness.
Kapnomore, from «a/tvoj, smoke, and (lolpa^ part.
— This forms a colorless oil, having a taste
like ginger, and producing a sense of suffoca-
tion. Besides these components, the heavy
tar-oils contain creasote and paraffine, about to
be described, and some other compounds ex-
tracted at a higher temperature by Laurent,
such as chrysene ^CigH^ and pyrene sxCgoH,,.
Creosote.— C,;E,fi^== HO,C„H,0 (?) Its pre-
paration is tedious. The heavier portions of
the oil obtained from wood-tar after being
DISTILLATIOK OF ORGANIC BODIES. 33
washed with a solution of carbonate of soda,
are submitted to distillation, by which they
are further separated into a portion lighter
than water, and into another which sinks in
this liquid. This heavier oil is then treated
with a solution of potash of specific gravity
1.12. By this means the creasote is dissolved
and the greater part of the hydrocarbons which
accompanied it are separated. The alkaline
solution, after being decanted from the hydro-
carbons, is boiled gently in an open basin, with
a view to oxidize a portion of the impurities.
When cold, dilute sulphuric acid in slight
excess is added to the liquid, by which means
the creasote is set at liberty. To purify it, it
has to be redistilled with water, again treated
with concentrated solution of potash, then with
dilute sulphuric acid, and then redistilled with
water. Finally, the creasote must be digested
upon chloride of calcium and distilled by itself.
It will then have the boiling point 398° F., and
does not become brown by keeping. When
pure it is an oily, colorless, neutral fluid, ex-
hibiting a strong, peculiar smoky odor, and
84 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
aharp, burning taste. Its specific gravity is
1.057 ; its boiling point 898° F. It is inflam-
mable, soluble in acetic acid, alcohol, ether, and
benzole, and coagulates albumen instantly.
It forms- a large part of the heavy oil of tar
passing over toward the end of distillation; the
nauseous smell of tar or of native petroleum,
is mainly due to this substance. Oreasote is
but slightly soluble in water; it has most
powerful antiseptic properties. Thus, a piece
of flesh steeped in a very dilute solution of it,
dries up into a mummy-like substance, which
thence refuses to putrefy. Tongues and hams
maybe almost instantly cured by immersing
them in a mixture of one part of oreasote, and
one hundred parts of water oj brine. Dentists
employ it for the purpose of relieving tooth-
ache arising from decaying teeth. In a very
diluted form it is a most valuable application
in cases of fetid ulcers, hospital gangrene, and
many cutaneous affections, as itch, &c. In the
smallest quantities it prevents or stops the
fermentation of wine, cider, beer, &o. It is
this substance which imparts to wood smoke,
DISTILLATION OF ORGANIC BODIES. S6
produced by incomplete combustion, its quali-
ties of preserving meat. The eyes of many a
poor wretch of boarding-house experience
testify to its pungent properties, as he sheds
compulsory tears over a bad fire. • The crea-
sote at present most found in commerce is
either prepared direct from coal, or from petro-
leum during the process of purification, and
has a dark color generally. Wood and coal
creasote, though distinct bodies, exhibit, in
some respects, identical properties ; both are of
course dangerous poisons. Wood creasote is
probably a homologue of coal creasote.
Coal tar creasote, syn. with phenic or car-
bolic acid,, hydrated oxide of phenyl, and iphQ"
nol,«=:C„Ho03«HO,C„H30. Specific gravity
« 1.065 ; boils at 369^ F. It forms also a pro-
duct of the distillation of gum benzoine, of the
resin of the XarUhorrhoea hastilis. Steedeler
found it in the urine of the cow. Its solutions
do not redden litmus paper. A drop of it let
fall upon paper produces a transient greasy
stain. If a splinter of deal be dipped into a
solution of phenic acid and then into nitric or
86 , COAL OIL AND PBTBOLSUM.
hydrochloric, the wood as it dries becomes blue.
Phenic acid, when heated with ammQnia in a
sealed tube, is partly converted into water and
aniline ; with caustic potash it forms a crystal-
line compound. It is now more particularly
employed as a valuable permanent dye-stuff
for silk and woollen fabrics. Carbolic acid,
when treated with nitric acid at a moderate
heat, yields carbozotic or picric acid of a yellow
color ; by concentrating this liquor by evapo-
ration, we obtain yellow, scaly crystals. Picric
acid is intensely bitter, like quinine, and may
prove a good remedy for intermittent fever.
Ale and beer have been repeatedly found to
be- adulterated witb it. Like all the tar colors,
its dyeing qualities when in solution are most
intense, i. e., a very small weight of the mate-
rial goes very far. Silk and woollen goods,
without further preparation, when brought
into the solution even cold, assume a magnifi-
cent yellow color, throwing far into the shade
those obtained from other dyes. Cotton fibre
affords less attraction for the dye. Picric or
trinitrophenic acid, as it is often called, may,
DISTILLATION OF ORGANIC BODIES. 87
however, be obtained from a great variety of
substances, when acted upon by hot nitric acid,
such as indigo, aniline, saligenine, salicylous and
salicylic acids, salicine, phloridzine, silk, aloes,
coumarine, and many gum-resins, etc. Picric
acid has the composition (H0,C„H,(N0J30).
It may be fused to a yellowish oil, and even
be partially sublimed, but if suddenly heated
it explodes.
Paraffine pv tar-wax is another useful and
interesting body. It comes over toward the
last stages, when crude tar is rectified. It is
particularly abundant in beech tar, but occurs
in the tar of both animal and vegetable sub-
stances, and in all kinds of American petro-
leum. Its specific gravity is 0.870, and it fuses
at 110.7° F. It is a pearly white, tasteless, and
inodorous solid, miscible when melted, in all
proportions, with fixed and volatile oils; the
strongest and most corroding acids and alkalies
have no effect upon it, whence its name, from
parum, affinis.
It burns with a bright, white flame, without
smoke. It is now much employed as a mate-
4
98 OOAL on. AHB FSTBOLinif.
rial for candleB, which for matchless purity and
lustre are without a rirali the best and most
oosdj of wax tapers not excepted. Faraffine
possesses many properties which render it nse-
f al in the laboratory. It may be advantageously
sabstituted fOT oil in baths, as it endnres a high
temperature without evaporating or emitting
-any unpleasant odor. Bibulous paper, after
being soaked in it, may be kept several weeks
in concentrated sulphuric acid without under-
going the slightest alteration. Hence paraffine
forms an excellent coating to labels; hydro- .
fluoric acid, even, does not act upon it except
it be heated. It appears also to be useful in
preserving fruits. Apples, pears, &c., coated
with it retain all their freshness during many
months. Perhaps it will be proved that flowers
might thus be likewise preserved.
Faraffine is now most abundantly obtained
by distillation from cannel coal, or native petro-
leum, when it comes over with certain isomeric
oils, passing into the receiver toward the close
of distillation. In other words, the oily mix-
ture which remains after most of the photogenic
DISTILLATION OP OBGANIC BODIES. 89
oils have passed over, and from which the solid
paraffine may be obtained, is called paraffine
oil. For experimental purposes on a small
scale, paraffine may be most readily prepared
by distilling beeswax with lime.
Asphalt, or pitch, is the fixed residue left
after distilling tar; like the native asphalt, it
is used for varnishes and as an ingredient for
making lampblack, which latter is again em-
ployed in preparing printers^ and lithographers'
inks.
Beichenbach, however, did not yet procure
any of these substances in quantities sufficient
to turn his important discoveries to practical
advantage. Mansfield and Young, of practical
England, took out patents, in 1848, for pre-
paring, out of coal tar, obtained as a bi-product
in gas establishments, paraffine and certain oils
suitable for photogenic and lubricating pur-
poses.
40 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
CHAPTER III.
PRODUCTS OF THE DISTILLATION OP CANNKL
COAL AND THEIR CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
The products obtainable from coal are still
more numerous than those from wood ; many
of them differ essentially, as would be naturally
inferred from the different nature and compo-
sition of the material from which they are
derived. Wood being rich in oxygen, and
poor in nitrogen, furnishes products containing
much acetic acid and little ammonia, exhibiting
hence an acid reaction. C!oal and animal mat-
k
ters, containing, on the contrary, much nitrogen
and but little oxygen, yield a good deal of
ammonia, imparting to the products an alkaline
reaction. Goal tar has of late been shown to
contain —
1. Acid oils, soluble in alkalies, such as pot-
ash, &c..
DISTILLATION OF CANNSL COAL. 41
2. Alkaline oils, sol able in acids, such as
sulpharic.
3. Neutral oils not affected by alkalies and
some acids.
No. 1 consists essentially of carbolic acid or
coal creasote =» CjjH^Oj, together with small
quantities of the following acids, viz : rosolic,
brunolic, acetic, butyric.
No. 2 constitutes but a small bulk of the
mass, and consists chiefly of ammonia ^NH,,
aniline, syn. with phenylamine^NCijHy, and
leucoline, syn. with quinoline— N,Ci3,E[^
Both of the latter furnish a base for the most
beautiful dyes, representing all the colors of the
solar spectrum or rainbow, if the yellow shade,
obtained from coal creasote, as previously de-
scribed, is included.
Besides, traces of the following substances
have been detected, viz: —
Ethylamine, Lutidine,
Methylamine, Cumidine,
Picoline, Pyrrole.
Toluidine.
No. 3, comprising coal oils proper, is com-
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42 COAL OIL AND PETROLBUM.
posed of a great variety of hydrocarbons, both
liquid and solid, the latter being held in solu-
tion. All are of different volatilities, viz., boil
at different temperatures.
A. Alcohol series of hydrocarbons —
Hydride of Amyle«CioH„, boils at 102° F.
Hydride of Caproyle= C„Hi^ boils at 154° P.
Hydride of (Enanthyle= Cj^H^e, boils at 208° F.
Hydride of Capryle«Ci,Hj8, boils at 246° F.
B. Benzole series of hydrocarbons — •
Benzole=C^H^, boils at 177° F.
Toluole^Cj^Hg, boils at 280° F.
Xylole=CioHjo, boils at 263° F.
Cumole-CigHijj, boils at 299° F.
Cymole=CaoHi^, boils at 841° F.
C. ParaflSne series of solid hydrocarbons.
Paraj^ne= (empirically) CnHn. Its rational
formula is not known, but it appears to be a
homologue of olefiant gasssC^H^. Its specific
gravity is 0.870. It fuses at 110.7° F. Its
boiling point is upwards of 418° (?).
Naphthaline^ C^B^^. Specific gravity 1 .153 ;
fusing point 174° ; boiling point 428°. Beau-
tiful red and blue colors, rivalling those from
DISTILLATION OF CANNEL COAL. 43
aniline, have lately been obtained from this
pearly-white solid.
Paranaphthaline, syn. with anthracene, =■
C30H13, i. e., it forms, according to Dumas and
Laurent, a polymere of naphthaline. Ander-
son's analysis leads to the formula CjjHiq.
Fusing point 416°; boiling point 570^ It
forms a white crystalline solid.
Chrysene=Ci3Hi^.
These two solids were obtained by Laurent
in the latter stages of the distillation of fatty
and of resinous bodies, and in that of coal tar.
44 COAL OIL AND FBTBOLEUM.
CHAPTER lY.
MANUFACTURE OF PHOTOGENIC OILS AND OTHER
USEFUL PRODUCTS FROM COAL, WOOD, AND
TURF — VARIATION OF THE RESULT ACCpRD-
ING TO THE TEMPERATURE EMPLOYED IN DIS-
TILLING.
Naphthaline and paranaphthaline are
formed when organic substances are decom-
posed at a high temperature, as in gas works,
where they frequently incrust the pipes lead-
ing from the retorts.
ParafiBne accompanies the heavier coal oils
produced at a more moderate temperature;
from this fact it will be perceived at once that
the manufacture of illuminating gas and of
paraffine oils can never be advantageously con-
ducted at one and the same time. .
DISTILLATION OP COAL TAR, 45
Distillation of Coal Tar.
In distilliog coal tar over a free fire, or by
passing steam through the retorts, one of the
first products which goes into the receiver
is a light, very mobile fluid, known as crude
naphtha. Washing, first with dilute sulphuric
acid, to remove the basic oils, and next with
potassa liquor, to remove any acid oils present,
and repeated distillation of the purified mix-
ture, furnishes the* so-called rectified naphtha,
of which benzole or benzine forms one of the
most abundant and useful substances.
Benzole was originally obtained by Faraday
from the liquid produced by the compression
of oil gas, and named bicarburet of hydrogen-
Benzole may be easily procured in small
quantities by distilling one part of benzoic
acid with three parts of quicklime; the dis-
tillate should be agitated with a weak solution
of potash, and the benzole which rises to the
surface be dried by digestion upon chloride of
calcium; after which it may be obtained pure
46 COAL OIL AND PSTBOLBUM.
by redistillation. Benzoic acid yields about a
third of its weight of benzole.
From coal naphtha — the cheapest and most
abundant source of benzole— it may be pro-
cured pure by repeated rectifications, and
exposing the product to a cold of 32® F., when
it solidifies in transparent crystals or camphor-
like masses. The other hydrocarbons asso-
ciated with.it remain liquid at that tempera-
ture. Two gallons of naphtha furnish thus a
pint of pure benzole. Even the commercial,
impure, and diluted benzole or coal naphtha
constitutes a superior menstruum for oils,
resins, and fats, which renders it suitable for
family use in removing stains from silksj
woollen and cotton fabrics, carpets, &o.* A
solution of one part of wax i^nd one of rosin,
in two parts of naphtha, forms an excellent
furniture polish.
Naphtha, containing no oxygen, may be
* Ji. fluid now usually sold in drugshops for tliis pur-'
pose, and labelled benzine, we find to consist merely of
the more volatile constituents of petroleum ; ^t answers
in a measure the purpose for which it is designed.
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAR. 47-
advantageously employed for preserving potas-
sium, sodium, manganese, and other oxidizable
metals. Care should be taken, however, first
to ascertain whether it is truly anhydrous, i. c,
deprived of water, otherwise serious explosions
might occur.
By its' own evaporation it keeps off insects
from zoological collections or stuffed animals.
Mansfield introduced benzine into the English
market more especially as a solvent of caout-
chouc and gutta percha. The solution is used
in rendering cloth and other fabrics water-
proof; also in the manufacture of syringes,
surgical instruments, &c.
It replaces oil of turpentine, ether, &c., in
preparation of varnishes and paints.*
Being very volatile and higjily inflamms^ble,
it is even more dangerous than turpentine.
Hence explosions of lamps and conflagrations
in storehouses have been frequent. The law
•ought to prohibit its storage in the very hearts
of our cities, and should regulate its shipping
by railroads and vessels, in order to protect
human life. Since many of the component
48 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
parts of coal oil assume the form of vapor at
any temperature above zero^ it is evident that we
cannot too carefully guard against those acci-
dents so common to explosive cdmpounds.
Its volatile nature renders it as dangerous as
alcohol Shall the late terrible catastrophe at
Philadelphia pass by unheeded, or will the
public, taught by sad experience, at length
show their appreciation of these facts?
Naphtha and petroleum exposed to the atmo-
sphere gradually thicken or solidify, for, like
many of the essential drying oils, they take up
oxygen and form resins or gums. Painters
and artists mix their colors with drying oils,
such as turpentine, poppy, nut, and flaxseed
oils.
Benzole, when treated with concentrated
nitric acid, forms nitrobenzole or artificial oil
of bitter almonds, used'n the art of perfumery.
The following formula will render this pro-
cess clear: —
/ \ " V
* Benzole -|- Nitric Aoid. sx Nitrobenzole + Water.
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAB. 49
By means of nitric acid all the members of
the benzole series may be separated from the
amyle series of hydrocarbons.
Nitrobenzole or "Essence de Mirbane," as it
has been styled, is largely used for scenting
fancy soaps, for which purpose, being less
affected by alkalies, it is more suitable than the
genuine oil. For confectionery shops it is
still more preferable, since it never contains,
like the other, traces of prussio acid — a fearful
poison.
Nitrobenzole may be readily transformed into
aniline, to which, in connection with the justly
celebrated tar colors, we shall direct the atten-
tion of the reader in a separate chapter.
As the distillation goes on and the tempera-
ture rises, the heavier and less volatile oils
come over, which may, as such, be disposed of
to machine shops, or; by redistillation, be
changed into light oil and paraffine.
At laoJ the dark-colored paraffine oils appear,
which are so much charged with paraffine that,
by exposure in open vats, they deposit this
body in white scales.
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50 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
In the still remains a highly carbonaceous
residue, or artificial asphalt.
This new branch of industry, arising from
the discovery of facts relative to the distillation
of vegetable matter, which were hitherto un-
known, begaj;^ to prosper and to develop itself
rapidly, especially since it was found that not
only coal but such abundant material as peat,
and many calcareous schists, would likewise
yield oils.
Indeed, science established the fact, that, in
the process of carbonization, all vegetable and
animal tissues furnish some identical products.
Thus, pafaflSne results from the preparation
of bone black, and also enters into the compo-
sition of soot, and even tobacco smoke.
In many countries, mighty layers of bitumi-
nous, rocks, hitherto barren and unprofitable,
could thus be turned into an immense capital.
Again, the peat swamps of Ireland constitute
a seventh part of the surface of the whole
country ; peat, as a fuel, situated as it was in
the vicinity of the rich English coal mines, was
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAR. 51
valueless, and, in an agricultural point of view,
a curse to the country. Now, the picture was
reversed, as thousands of diligent hands, while
furnishing huraan society with most useful pro-
ducts, were producing for themselves their
daily bread. And, further still, pn the conti-
nent of Europe, as in Germany, France, &c.,
where the production of animal oils and fats is
meagre, large tracts of lands were before culti-
vated with plants yielding oil-bearing seeds,
such as rape, flaxseed,. oamelina, sativa (golden
pleasure), &c., upon which wheat and other
grains may now be raised. *
Tallow and animal oils, employed for candle
and soap making, lubricators, &c., may be
turned to other account ; indeed, chemistry has
commenced to convert some animal fats into
artificial butter, which, at least, for frying and
baking purposes, proves highly valuable. The
following results, obtained by chemical analysis,
may be Jaken as the average quantity of pro-
ducts derived from the distillation of schists
and turf: —
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COAL OIL AND PKTBOLEITM.
One hundred parts of a bitaminous slate of
Wurtemberg yielded —
Tar ' 9.68
"Water and ammonia . . 8.33
Gas 12.36
Eesidue (coke, rocky matters) 68.68
100.00
One hundred parts of the above tar furnished —
Light oil or photagen • . 24.18
Heavy or lubricating oil
Paraffine
Creasote
Carbon residue or asphalt
Gas and loss
41.94
.12
19.04
13.69
1.18
100.00
One hundred parts of peat or turf from Han-
over, dried in the air, yielded —
Tar 9.06
Ammoniacal liquor . . . 40.00
Coke 85.32
Gas and loss .... 15.62
100.00
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAB. 63
One hundred parts of this tar gave —
Light oil .... 19.46
Heavy oil
Paraffine
Asphalt
Creasote and loss
19.55
8.31
17.19
40.49
100.00
Whence by a simple calculation we find that
100 parts of this turf will furnish —
Light oil 1.76 parts
Heavy oil . . . . 1.77 "
Paraffine .... 6.30 ''
Asphalt .... 1.56 "
The chemical works established in the county
of Kildare, Ireland, are capable of working up
one hundred t6ns of peat per day. Every ton
of peat yields three pounds of paraffine, two
gallons of volatile oil, adapted for burning,
and one gallon of fixed oil, for lubricating
purposes, all separated from the five to six gal-
lons of tar furnished by one ton of peat. Be-
sides, each ton of peat yields sixty -five gallons
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54 COAL OIL AND PKTBOLEUK.
of ammoniacal liquor, containing a list of
useful substances ; for all practical purposes it
suffices to mention ammonia, apetic acid, and
pyroxilic spirit, &c., already described in con-
nection with wood tar.
One ton of peat affords —
5^ lbs. of ammonia,
5 lbs. of acetic acid, and
8 lbs. of naphtha.
Besides, some of the tar residue or asphalt
may be converted into a valuable grease or
lubricator for the axles of carriages, railroad
cars, &c. Peat tar itself is an excellent pre-
ventive of the fouling of ships' bottoms, suc-
'cessfuUy resisting those marine incrustations,
whether of an animal or vegetable nature, so
detrimental and injurious to shipping. An
experiment, made in Scotland, proved that
one side of a schooner, to which it was applied,
presented at the end of six months the same
clean appearance as when laid on, while the
other side, on which was put the usual compo-
sition or paint, became so fouled as to require
cleaning during that time.
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAR. 55
Variation of ike Products of Distillation^ ac-
cording to Different Temperatures. — Experience
teaches that t^Q relative proportion and the
chemical nature of the products of distillation
vary not only with the different materials em-
ployed, whether wood, coal, or turf, but also
according to the temperature to which one and
the same substance is subjected. Thus, if we
desire to obtain the greatest amount of perma-
nent gas from coal, it ought to be rapidly decom-
posed — i. «., heated to a temperature of 800 to
1,000 degree}^ F. If it be our purpose to pro-
cure the greatest amount of fluids, no tempera-
ture above 700 degrees F. is admissible.
Hence, it follows that the manufacture of
illuminating gas, and that of photogenic oils,
cannot be combined with economy; neither
can the process of tar and coke making with
the production of volatile oils, as was at first
imagined to be practicable.
Coal heated to a strong red heat, 980 degrees
F., yields a maximum quantity of tar, but the
&tty bodies separable therefrom by fractional
distillation are mainly naphtha (benzole) and
66 COIL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
naphthaline, a crjstallizable solid, but no pa-
raifine. Neither of the first two are desirable
constituents of iamp-oils. The cj^ief ingredients
of these are compounds evolved after the'
naphtha ceases to come over, and before naph-
thaline is .produced. That is, to say again
what was previously mentioned, the manufac-
ture of photogenic oils terminates where that
of illuminating gas commences.
ParaflSnized oils are generated from coal be-
tween 850 and 700 deg. F. The manufacture
of coal oils may be advantageously accom-
plished at a much lower temperature, by per-
mitting super-heated steam to flow through
the retorts, or by conducting the distillation in
a partial- vacuum, like the boiling down of
cane sugar. * .
The retorts, in which the distillation of coal
is conducted, are of iron or clay, and shaped
much like those in gas works. The exit tube
for the products, inserted at the end opposite
to the mouth, is of considerable length, and
kept cool by a constant stream of cold water.
The gases, after passing through this pipe.
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAB, 57
enter Into a large iron cylinder filled with
coke, which removes the last traces of the tar'
they contain; thence they are suffered to es-
cape into a chimney of strong draft.
The liquid products of distillation flow into
a large reservoir, kept at a temperature of
86° R, in which tar separates from the am-
moniacal waters ; these waters are mixed with
the residue of the large retorts, and furnish a
rich manure, or are turned into sal-ammoniac.
It has been calculated that in England alone
4000 tons of this salt are annually thus ob-
tained. This important compound was, at one
time, imported from Egypt, where it was first
prepared by the distillatibn of camels' dung,
near the temple of Jupiter Ammon, from which
it takes its name.
The tar and its crude oils are next pumped
into a purifying apparatus, m^de of cast-iron,
and mixed with a few per cent, of copperas, to
free it from sulphide of ammonium. If the
coal contains a good deal of sulphur at first, it
is sprinkled over with caustic lime before being
distilled, as sulphur compounds impart to
58 COAL OIL AND FETBOLEUM.
barning coal a very bad odor. After this the
tar is brought into regular stills, holding seve-
ral hundred gallons, and heated over a free fire
or jyith superheated steam. The oily volatile
products of distillation are condensed in a
leaden coil, 30 to 40 feet long.
The following products may be separately
collected by a fractional distillation : — *
1. A thin, volatile, Tery inflammable liquid,
lighter than water (spec. grav. 0.8) — i, e., crude
na{)htha.
2. An oily mixture, heavier than water,
called solar oil, which continues to come over
until the temperature approaches 400°; it is
best suited for a burning fluid for lamps (ar-
gands) with a round wick, allowing the air
access into the interior of the- flame.
S. Paraflinized oil, so called from its con-
taining largely paraflSne ; it is well-adapted as
a lubricator.
Mixtures of 1 and 2 burn very readily, and
those of Nos. 2 and 3 furnish an excellent ma-
chine oil.
^ Dr. AntiseU'g Treatise on Coal Oils.
DISTILLATION OF COAL TAB. 59
The rest of No. 8, not used for mixing, is
exposed in vats to a low temperature for seve-
ral weeks ; when it crystallizes it is submitted
to the hydraulic press, melted again, and puri-
fied with concentrated sulphuric acids and po-
tassa solution.
The residue left in the still forms a tarry
mass, which by means of caustic soda^ may be
converted into a black soapy grease used as a
lubricator of wagons and railroad cars.
60 COAL OIL AND FXTBOLEUH.
CHAPTER V.
PUBIFIOATION OF COAL OIL OB KBROSENB,.AND
OF BITUMINOUS OILS, TOGETHBR WITH A
BBIEF HISTOBT OF THESE OILS; AND OOM-
PABISON OF ARTIFICIAL PBODUOTS WITH
THOSE FOUND IN NATUBB.
Having, on a former occasion, already
alluded 4;o the qualities and chemical composi-
tion of burning and lubricating oils, showing
that these are neutral compounds, being, m
other words, indifferent towards acids as well
as alkalies, while the pernicious admixtures
readily combine with these chemicals, the prin-
ciple and methods of purification suggest
themselves as deserving of a small portion of
our attention.
In addition to the redistillation (or rectifica-
tion) of crude tar oils, whereby traces of tar and
PUBIFICATION OF COAL OILS. 61
Other highly carbonaceous solids and liquids
suspended in the oil are removed, chemical
purifiers are employed; amongst these are
principally sulphuric acid and caustic soda.
The oil is agitated or churned for aeveral
hours with about five per cent, of its weight of
sulphuric acid^ at a temperature of from 75^
to 90^ F. It is then allowed to settle,^ and
drawn off into a second purifier, and mized
with five per cent, of caustic soda solution (or
lime-waler), and the whole stirred for two or
three hours, and left to repose; having gone
through this process, the oil is once more dis-
tilled. Sulphuric acid unites with several
heavy hydrocarbons and detaches them from
the lighter oils upon which it has no action ;
the soda answers the double purpose of neu-
tralizing an excess of acid, and of removing
creasote or carbolic acid.
* Manganate of potassa and nitrio acid are used for the
same purpose ; others purify each separate oil with six
per cent, of sulphuric acid ; one-eighth per cent, bichro-
mate of potassa ; two and one-half per cent, muriatic
acid.
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62 COAL OIL AND PBTROLKUM.
Brief History op Bituminous, and Kero-
sene OR Empyreumatio Oils.
It is on the continent of Europe, where
whale and other animal oils and fats are high
in price, and the supply of vegetable oils in-
sufficient, that the distillation of natural tar
or asphalt and bituminous slate was first re-
sorted to in order to obtain illuminating oils.
As early as 1819 the celebrated savant, De
Saussure, in Switzerland, distilled bituminous
limestone, and pronounced the oil obtained
therefrom identical with that derived from the
native petroleum of Amiano, in Italy. For
more than twenty years past lamp oils were
extensively prepared in Germany and France
from wood, rosin, schists, and bitumen . or
asphalt.
Tar oils obtained from animal substances,
containing sulphur and phosphorus, have a
penetrating offensive odor, and are tedious to
purify, and hence less fit for practical purposes.
The manufecture of bituminous oils in Great
HISTOBY. 68
Britain and this country is of much more
recent growth, because the extensive pursuit
of the whale fishery supplied all the wants
of the market. * Still, the manufacture of
volatile oils from coal was first practised in
England, and the process was in some respects
new; for we must call to mind that it is
only quite lately that chemists look upon oils
procured from coal, wood, native bitumen, &c.,
as analogous, if not absolutely identical pro-
ducts. This ignorance must now surprise us
still more when we consider the origin of the
material and recollect that even before the pro-
duction of illuminating gas, large amounts of
coal were distilled simply to obtain tar to satisfy
the necessities of the English navy and mercan-
tile marine — wood tar being, though preferable,
too expensive. The English process of obtain-
ing these useful oils from the distillation of
coal was, from selfish motives, kept secret at
first, and even samples of oils withheld from the
exhibitions of all nations at Paris in 1855.
The first empyreumatic oil was manufactured
in this country in 1850, at Brooklyn, New York,
64 COAL OfL AND PETEOLEUM.
by distilling wood and rosin together, a jet of
high pressure steam being conducted through
the retorts. The writer visiting the factory, and
being consulted about its utility as a burning
fluid, found it would not burn without smoke,
even in lamps consuming readily oil of turpen-
tine. There was at that time no lamp invented
with a sufficient draft to bum completely such
highly carbonaceous oils, whence wood and coal
oils, as light-furnishing mediums, found at first
but a slow access into dwellings. The earlier
constructed lamps separated a very fine carbon
or soot, which, settling imperceptibly upon the
faces of a company, often presented a ludicrous
spectacle. These oils were in earlier times sent
to market in a crude and unrefined state, and
consequently were ill calculated to win public
favor. Their bad creasotelike odor was enough
to cause their rejection at first by persons of
delicate sensibilities ; but gradually every ob-
stacle was overcome, and little more could be
objected against their general adoption and
use.
The manu&cture of coal oil in this country
HISTORY. 65
was first introduced in 1853, and was generally
confined to districts where highly bituminous
(cannel) coal could be mined at a cheap price.
Hence the States of Kentucky, Virginia, Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois became
great centres for its manufacture.
The Lucesco works in Westmoreland County,
Pa., were perhaps the largest in the country, pro-
ducing 6000 gallons of crude oil a day, which is
also rectified there. At Brooklyn N. Y., were
located the New York kerosene oil works, pro-
ducing and refining 1000 gallons of oil daily.
This factory was perhaps theonly one far removed
from the source of material, but New York
being the great commercial market and a sea
board city, the saving of expenses for transpor-
tation of the refined oil, compensated for extra
outlays in shipping coal. In Franklin County,
Va., near the Kanawha River, was a factory pro-
ducing 1000 gallons of oil per day. The refin-
ing operation was conducted at Maysville, Ky.
In 1860 the total number of factories in the
United States was over sixty.
6^
66 COAL OIL AKD PETROLEUM.
Comparison of Artificial Products with
THOSE found in NATURE.
Kataral prodacts, closely resembling the
artificial ones alluded to, hare been found in
inaDj localities all oyer the world for ages past.
Some escape as gases from crevices of rocks ;
others are liquid, and exude through the soil
in drops, or spout out through fissures in the
rocks like fountains; others, again, of a solid
shape, are imbedded beneath the earth's sur-
face. The complete chemical analogy between
both classes was not dreamed of for some time,
and was only ascertained step by step in the
gradual progress of science. Thus the close
connection, if not identity, of the natural pro-
duct, long known under the synonymous
names of naphtha, mineral naphtha, petroleum,
rock oil, and seneca oil, with coal oil, was
experimentally established, its importance ap-
preciated, and its value understood, long after
the same article, artificially produced, had
attracted, by its vast commercial value, the
ABTIFICUL AND NATURAL PBODUCTS. 67
notice of the civilized world. The following
table will enable the general reader to get a
comparative view of the two classes of artificial
and native products corresponding to one
another.
ABTIFICIJLL PBODUCTS FBOH
PIT OS BITUMUrOUS COAL.
1. niominating gas.
2. Thin or light oil of coal
tar, containing benzole, &o.
3. Thick or heayy oil of
coal tar, containing paraf-
fine.
4. Artificial asphaltnm
(pitch of pit coal.)
PBODUCTS oocuBBnra BATmi
IB THB BABTH.
1. Inflammable gases (sa-
cred fire of the Brahmins),
issuing here and there from
crcYices of the rocks.
2. Naphtha, a thin and
nearly colorless variety of
rook oil oozing out of the
earth in Italy and Persia,
and containing benzole.
3. Mineral tar, found in
many places in Fersiay Ame-
rica, and France. It is
darker and more viscid than
rock on, and contains paraf-
fine.
4. Natural asphaltum (or
pitch of Judea), found in
the Dead 8ea, and other
Asiatic seas. It contains
paranaphthaline.
68
COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
ABTIFIGIAL PBODUCTS FBOX
PIT OB BITUMIUOUS COAL.
5. Ammoniacal empjien-
matio liquid.
^ 6. Coke as prodnced and
seen in all gas works. It is
a porous and light carbon.
PBODUCTS OCCUBBIira BTATIYB
nr THE EABTH.
5. Ammonia, issuing in
watery yapor, associated
with boracio acid, from the
earth of Tuscany.
6. Anthracite coal in im-
mense beds in Fennsylya-
nia. It is a compact and
heayy carbon, owing to the
enormous pressure to which
it has been exposed.
The following organic substances are allied
to the native bitumens mentioned in the pre-
vious table.
1. Elastic bitumerij mineral caoutchouc, — This
curious body has hitherto been found in three
places: In a lead mine at Castleton in Derby-
shire, at Montrelais in France, and in Massa-
chusetts in America. In the latter localities it
occurs in the coal series. It is fusible, and
resembles in many respects the other bitumens.
2. Betinite or Betinasphalt, — It is found in
brown coal, and constitutes a fossil resin,
ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL PRODTJCTS. 69
whicli has a yellow color, is fusible and in-
flammable, and largely soluble in alcohol.
8. HatcJietin^* similBX to the last named, is
met with in mineral coal-beds at Merthyr
Tydvil, and near Loch Fyne in Scotland.
4. Idrialin is found associated with native
cinnabar, and is extracted from the ore by oil
of turpentine. It constitutes a white crystal-
line substance, composed of C^Hj^O; it is
generally associated with a hydrocarbon idril,
which contains O^Hj^.
5. Ozoherite^ or fossil wax, occurs in Molda-
via and Switzerland in bituminous shale or
brown coal. It is brownish and has a pearly
lustre. It fuses below 212^ F., is easily
soluble in turpentine, but with difficulty in
alcohol and ether.
70 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
CHAPTER VL
PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL — ITS CHEMICAL COM-
POSITION— ILLUMI^^ATING POWER.
Petroleum is named from petra^ a rock, and
oleum, oil. This highly important native com'
pound, analogous in every respect to the kero-
sene oils just described, will next engage our
attention. It is, like these, a mixture of a great
many chemically different substances, and, as
proved by its composition, is evidently of or-
ganic origin..
Petroleum and its manifold products find an
almost endless application in science, art, and
in practical life.
It is used in the preparation of paints and
varnishes, the lighter portion or naphtha dis-
tilled from it, dissolving caoutchouc, camphor,
fatty and resinous bodies generally, and when
PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 71
hot even sulphur and phosphorus. It forms a
substitute for fish-oil in tanning. Petroleum
soap is already a favorite toilet article.
Aniline and its brilliant colors may perhaps
be prepared from the waste petroleum after
refining it. Petrpleum fo|*ms an already valu-
able caloric.
Thomas Shaw, in an article in the."Ame-
xican Gas Light Journal," in which he advo-
cates the economy of the use of oil as fuel, says,
"that the heating value of 100 pounds of coal
average quality, spec. grav. 1.279, is equivalent
to raising 812,807 pounds of water 1° 0, The
heating value of 100 pounds of petroleum is
equivalent to raising 1,231,600 pounds of
water 1° C, making the heating value of coal
as compared with petroleum, as 1 is to 1.51.
This is the calculated value of their component
parts."
It famishes, as generally known, photogenic
and lubricating fluids. It has proved to be
an efficient remedy like ordinary coal oil, es-
pecially in ulcers and cutaneous diseases. Pe-
72 COAli OIL AND FSTBOLSUM.
troleum vapors are said to act very beneficiallj
in protracted cases of asthma and weak lungs.
Mr. Bobb states that the air in oil pits be-
comes charged with vapors of. an intoxicating
effect.
The "American Druggist's Circular and
Chemical Gazette," in speaking of a new anaas-
thetic, says : '^ Dr. Genges has addressed a note
to the French Academy, giving an account of
some interesting experiments in trying new
agents for diminishing sensibility. He has as-
certained that a purified kerosaline, obtained
from common petroleum, when vaporized by
means of heat, will be found a most valuable
ansesthetia"
It is already well understood that amylene
gas, closely allied to some of these hydrocar-
bons, and which is obtained by decomposing
chloride of amyle by fused hydrate of potash,
acts on the system like chloroform, though
with more dangerous effects perhaps.
It would not appear surprising i^ in future,
by the means pointed out by Berthelot,* vi-
♦ Ann. de Chimie, III., XIV. 385.
PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. 73
nous alcohol = (C^H^OjHO) as well as wood-
alcohol = (OjHgOjHO), and other kinds may be
profitably manufactured from the so-abundant
petroleum hydrocarbons. •
The two methods to prepare alcohols by
synthesis from hydrocarbons are based upon —
1st. In fixing oxygen upon those of the for-
mula CjjnH3n+2, L c, marsh gas and its homo-
logues.
2d. In fixing the elements of water upon
those of the composition CgnHjn, i. e., olefiant
gas and its homologues.
Thus Berthelot obtained wood or methylic
alcohol artificially by acting upon marsh gas
by chlorine, and decomposing the chloride
thus obtained by means of a solution of potash.
Common or vinous alcohol may be prepared
synthetically, by forming a solution of olefiant
gas in oil of vitriol, which dissolves about one
hundred and twenty times its bulk of the gas;
then diluting the mixture, and submitting it
to distillation.
Chemical Composition of Petroleum. — De La
7
74 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
Eue and H. Miiller* have examined the Bir-
mese naphtha or Bangoon petroleum.
It is obtained by sinking wells about sixty
feet deep, in which the liquid is collected as it
oozes out from the soil. At a common tem-*
perature it has the consistency of goose fat ; it
is lighter than water, and has usually a green-
ish-brown color ; it has a slight, peculiar, but
not unpleasant odor. It is composed almost
entirely of volatile constituents, about 11 per
cent, of which come off below 212° P. The
fixed residue does not amount to more than 4
per cent, if it be distilled in a current of super-
heated steam. About 10 or 11 per cent of
the volatile matters consists of solid paraffine.
When the liquid portion is agitated with oil
of vitriol, some of its constituents enter into
combination with the acid, but the greater
part remain unaltered by this agent. In the
portion which combines with the acid, benzole,
toluole, xylole and cumole, have been identi-
fied, and there are several basic substances,
which have not as yet been completely exa-
* Proceed. Roy. Soo., VIIL 221.
PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL, 75
mined. The liquid, from which the hydrocar-
bons of the benzole series have been removed
by the action of the oil of vitriol, constitutes
naphtha. It may be puriffed by repeated agi-
tation with sulphuric acid, washing with water,
and rectification from quicklime. It is then
fit for the preservation of such alkaline metals
as potassium, sodium, etc. '
Prof. Vohl has published an analysis of
Eangoon oil. Spec. grav. 0.885.
It yielded by distillation and rectification : —
Illuminating oil, spec. grav. 0.830 • 40.705
40.999
6.071
4.605
7.620
Lubricating oil
Paraffine, fusing at eO"" F.
Asphalt
Loss (carbolic acid ? etc.)
100.000
The following analysis of Barbadoes tar was
executed by Charles Humfrey ("Technologist,"
March, 1863):—
The specimen was of a dark-brown color,
very viscid, with faint pleasant smell. Spec,
grav. 0.940,
76 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
10 ounces gave : — *
Water J oz.
Crude oil, No. 1, spec. grav. 0M2' . 5 ozs.
'' No. 2, " • 0.927 . 4 "
Coke ' J oz.
10 ozs. '
No. 1, when refined, gave four ounces of
fine oil, of a pale color, and very sweet ; spec,
grav. 0.908. No. 2 gave 2 J ounces of fine oil,
of a dark color, and some empyreumatic smell ;
spec. grav. 0.918.
But it is on the American continent that
the most copious petroleum springs and wells
have been developed within the past few years.
The principal and richest oil reservoirs are
situated in Pennsylvania and Canada. Other
deposits have been ascertained to exist in Ohio,
, Western Virginia, Kentucky, New York,
Michigan, and it is probable will be found in
Kansas, Tennessee, Alabama, California, and
Indiana.
The annexed table comprises the average
composition of American and Canada petro-
leum according to A. N. Tate, chemist. Liver-
PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL.
77
pool. These analyses were made for the
purpose of ascertaining the quantities of the
different products to be 'obtained from each.
The specific gravity of the spirit and burning oil
has been fixed at 0.735 and 0.820 respectively.
1
2
3
4
Sp. GE.
0.802
Sp. ge.
0.815
Sp. gr.
0.835
Sp. gr.
0.802
Spirits sp. gr. 0.735
Lamp oil sp. gr. 0.820
Lubricating oil . .
Paraffine ....
Coke . ; . . .
Loss
14.7
41.0
39.4
2.0
2.1
0.8
15.2
39.5
38.4
3.0
2.7
1.2
12.5
35.8
43.7
3.0
3.2
1.8
4.3
44.2
45.7
2.7
2.2
0.9
\
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Nos. 1 and 2. Pennsylvania petroleum of a
dark greenish color, and ethereal odor.
No. S. Canadian petroleum of a brown color
aud garlic odor.
No. 4. Similar to the former, and also from
the United States; precise locality unknown.
Pelouze and Cahours* have made a beautiful
and thorough analysis of American petroleum,
* Comptes Rendu, LVI. 505 ; Joum. f. pract. Chemie,
Bd. 29, Heft 5 and 6. Annal. der Ch. and Pharm., Bd.
LL Heft 2.
7*
78
COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
which was exported to France where it is
rectified. It is especially the more volatile
constituents, boiling below 392® F., that have
hitherto been examined into by these dis-
tinguished chemists. They have isolated as
many as twelve distinct hydrocarbons, all
homologous with marsh gas C^H^, or, as it may
be looked upon, hydride of methyle = CgHajH.
The boiling point (/. e., the temperature at
which it assumes a gaseous form) of the most
volatile oil is a few degrees above 32® F.,* and
it contains probably hydride of butyle. It is
also found to be one of the products of the
distillation of coal at low temperatures. The
formulas, specific gravities, and boiling points
of these hydrocarbons are the following: —
Composition
Sp.ge.
Boiling Point.
Hydride
bi Butyle
^8^10
ii ■
" Amyle
CjoH,2
0.628
860 F.
(1
" Caproyle
^12^14
0.669
154.4 "
((
« (Enanthyle
^14^16
0.699
197.6-201.2 «
((
" Capryle
C|eH,g
0.726
240.8-244.4 "
((
« Pelargyle
^18^20
0.741
276.8-280.4 "
It
u j Caprinyle
\ Rutyle
C20H22
0.757
320.0-323.6 „
11
" Hendekayle
C22H24
0.766
356.0-363.2
* Erdmann's Journ. fur Prakt. Chemie, Bd. 89, 1863.
Heft 5 and 6, p. 360.
PETROLEUM QE BOCK OIL.
79
Hydride of Lanryle
" " Cocinyle
" " Myristyle
Not named yet . .
COMPOSITIOH
24 a
Sp. Gr.
at 68° F.
0.776
0.792
BoTLuro Ponrr.
384.8-392.0O p.
420.8-424.4 "
456.8-464.0 «
491.0-500.0 *^*
Id addition to the mentioned class of hydro-
carbons, Pelouze and Cahours found parafBne to
be a constant ingredient of American petro-
leum. They think it probable that there
exists in it several solid hydrocarbons homo-
logofts with paraffine, forming mixtures similar
to the liquid hydrocarbon series. These
chemists will rhake this a matter of future
study.
The following is the result of an analysis of
Canadian petroleum made by Dr. S. Muspratt.
100 parts of Enniskillen oil yielded in distilla-
tion : —
* The latter four have recently been described in Comp-
tes Rendu, LVII. 62; also Jonm. fur Prakt. Chemie, 92
Bd. 2 Heft, p. 99, Leipzig, 1864.
80 COAL OIL ANp PETBOLEUM.
Light-colored naphtha, sp. gr. 0.794 . 20
Heavy yellow naphtha, sp. gr. 0.837 . 50
Lubricating oil rich in paraffine . . 22
Tar • . . ... . 5
Charcoal 1
Loss ......*. 2
100
The Canadian oils and those of the State of
Michigan have, like those found in South Ame-
rica and the West Indies, an oflFensive garlicky
odor, which distinguishes them at once from
most oils of the United States. The bad
smell is chiefly owing to sulphur, and Tate
traced likewise small quantities of phosphorus
and arsenic in the Canadian oils.
From chemical analysis we are justified in
considering the following difference between
coal oils and petroleum established.
The coal oils contain the hydrides of the
alcohol radicals, homologous to marsh gas
CttHa + 2, in a small proportion, but the
hydrocarbons of the benzole, and toluole series,
in large quantity.'
PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. 81
Petroleum contains mere traces of benzole
if any at all, but is mainly made up of the
hydrides of the alcohol series of hydrocarbons.
Whilst Pelouze and Cahours and others
find no benzole in the American petroleum,
Schorlemmer, of Manchester, on the contrary,
states that it . contains small quantities of ben-
zole and toluole. Mr. Murphy, of Liverpool,
could trace no benzole in petroleum, except in
one or two cases in minute quantity, and then
he believed it w^is produced by decomposition
during his experiments.
Tate was unable to detect it in any specimen
of the crude oil he examined, but found it in
several specimens of the "turpentine substi-
tute," also sold under the names of "benzine,"
and " petroleum spirits." This is obtained upon
distilling American petroleum; the first pro-
duct passing over has a specific gravity 0.680,
and is called "kerosolene ;" the next is a* spirit
somewhat heavier, and this has been called,
though wrongly, benzine, although it may in
many cases be used as a good substitute. Both
the kerosolene and benzine are frequently
82 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
collected together, and form the turpentine
substitute above referred to. It is believed
that the small amount of real benzine traceable
therein results from decomposition during the
process of distillation.
As Mr. Schorlemmer examined these same
lighter portions of crude petroleum, we can
account for his having expressed a different
opinion.
We have likewise been unable to recognize
benzole in some few American oils, neither
could we trace it in some kinds of the naphtha
or turpentine substitutes employed by house
painters. A fluid sold by our druggists for
removing grease spots, and marked benzine,
softened but failed to dissolve India rubber,
and upon examination by Hofmann's test
proved to contain no real benzine. It is
stated by some that in the Canadian oil ben-
zole is found, but, strange as it may appear,
we haVe been unable to procure any in the
broker offices of New York and Philadelphia
to examine it ourselves. Whether, at least,
some specimens of American or Canadian oils
are analogous to Birmese naphtha, in which De
PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. 88
La Eue and Miller found benzole, toluole, etc.,
we have had no means of determining thus far.
This is an important point in regard to the
manufacture of aniline colors as yet generally
imported from abroad. If American petro-
leum does not, like the Birmese naphtha, or
like artificial coal oil, furnish benzole, then, of
course, no nitro-benzole, the cheapest and most
abundant source of aniline, would be yielded.
The small amount of the ready formed alkaloid
present and removed by acid washings in the
refining operations, would, perhaps, not pay the
trouble of isolating it.
84 COAL OIL AND PETBOLKUM.
CHAPTER VIL
REFINING OP PETROLEUM.
The general principles followed in refining
petroleum are identical with those described
under kerosene oil. The crude oil is distilled
in a common large iron still protected by brick-
work to prevent the fire from playing directly
on the still. Steam pipes are inserted into the
still when steam is employed in the process of
distillation. With the still a coil of iron pipes
or condensing worm is connected, which is
placed in a vat filled with water. This is kept
cold until paraffine oil begins to go over, when,
to avoid its solidifying in the worm, it is kept
at a temperature of 80° P.
The distillation is carried on without the
use of steam until the remainder of the charge
in the retort grows thick when cold. If this
REFINING OP PBTROLKUM. 85
pitch is wished for, the operation is stopped at
this point, otherwise steam is now passed into
the neck or breast of "the retort, which produces
an outward current through the condenser,
carrying over the rest of oils and loaving
behind a compact coke.
Common or previously super-heated steam
has also been employed, being led into the
charge during distillation; this plan is of
decided advantage, especially for the distilla-
tion of the heavy oils.
The still patented by Abraham Quinn, of
New York City, in 1868, and which appears
to be built upon an excellent plan, has the
advantage of allowing the distillation to be
carried on without interruption, a fresh supply
of oil being constantly run into the still.
The distillate is collected in two portions.
The first, has a specific gravity of 0.74, and
forms the turpentine substitute of our paint
shops, and is falsely sold as benzine.
The second shows a specific gravity of 0.82,
and is well suited for lamp oil ; the balance of
8
86 CX)AIc OIL AND PETROLEUM.
heavier oils is either transferred to the next
charge, or kept as lubricating oil.
These two products are then each agitated
for some hours with five to ten per cent, of
sulphuric acid, allowed to settle, drawn ofi^ and
next agitated with water, and finally with five
to ten per cent, of caustic soda liquor, specific
gravity 1.40. After some hours' repose the
alkali is drawn oflT, the oils once more washed
with water, and again carefully distilled.
During all these operations the temperature
of the oils ought to be maintained at about
QQo Y, The heavier portions of the distillate
from crude petroleum form different kinds of
lubricators. The best variety is that which
follows after the burning oil has pass^ over.
The residue or coke left behind in the still
varies from five to ten per cent.
The garlicky odor of Canadian oils can be .
got rid of by the action of chemicals. By
forcing them simply through such deodorizing
mixtures as charcoal and sand the purpose
may be attained.
ILLUMINATINa POWER OP PETROLEUM, 87
Illuminating Power of Petroleum.
The following table, extracted from a lecture
on artificial light by Dr. Frankland ("Chemical
News," Feb. 21, 1863), shows the illuminating
power of petroleum as compared with the light
evolved by other substances. The table is
arranged so as to show the quantity of other
materials required to give outthe same amount
of light as would be obtained from one gallon
of Young's paraffine oil : —
Young's paraffine oil
•
1.00 gallon
American petroleum,
No.
1
1.26 «
C( ((
((
2
1.80 "
Paraffine candles .
•
18.6 poandg
Sperm ^ "
•
22.9 "
Wax
•
26.4 «
Stearine "
•
27.6 "
Composite "
•
29.5 "
Tallow "
•
89.0 "
88
COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
The next table* gives the comparative cost
of light obtained from different illuminating
materials, as compared with the light of twenty
sperm candles, each burning ten hours at the
rate of 120 grains per hour.
d.
2*
8
8
10
3
10
6
A merican petroleum (i nferior) 7f
The table given below is taken from '* Circle
of Sciences," vol. i. p. 421,
Wax .
s,
. 7
Spermaceti
. 6
Tallow
. 2
Sperm oil .
. . . 1
Coal gas .
.
Cannel gas
.- . .
Paraffine candles
. 8
ParafBne oil
. . .
BBSOEimoir o» Oil.
Pbicb per
IllTBlf 8ITT OF
Amoukt op
Cost op ah
OALLOir.
Light by
Light prom
Equal
Photombtbr.
Equal
QUAHTITT.
Quantity
OP Light ik
9. d.
Decimals.
Petroleum .
2
13.7
2.60
2.00
Sperm • • •
7 6
2.0
0.95
20.00
Camphene .
6
6.0
1.30
10.00
Rape or Colza
4
1.5
0.70
' 14.50
Whale •. .
2 9
2.4
0.85
8.25
* Tate's Petroleum and its Compounds, London, 1863,
HISTORY OF PETBOLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 89
CHAPTER VIII.
HISTORY OF PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL.
Tqe at present seemingly inexhaustible
quantity of native bituminous oils has ren-
dered their manufacture from any material,
no matter how cheap and abundant, unprofit-
able. Nature distils free of charge. Indeed,
it has almost ruined the whaling business ; the
old oil merchants sold their ships in many
instances to the United States Government at
the outbreak of the war, for the purpose of
blockading Southern ports, and* turned their
establishments into refineries for the purifica-
tion of petroleum, and have been obliged greatly
to multiply the number of stills and vats in
tliese. Although before the present war native
petroleum was generally unknown in the
country, it is not to be supposed that its dig-
8*
90 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
covery is new ; on the contrary, it dates back
' to the remotest antiquity.
The liquid bitumens or petroleum, when ex-
posed to the air, abstract oxygen therefrom,
turning gradually into solid asphaltum ; in this
form they were in ancient times used for build-
ing purposes. In building the ancient city of
Nineveh it appears that asphalt was employed
as a mortar, and was probably prepared by
the evaporation of petroleum. We find it alsQ
stated that the builders of Babel used '^clay
for bricks> and slime for mortar." (Gen. xi.
8.) It is well known that melted asphalt,
together with sand, constitutes a superior mix-
ture for roofing felt, for covering floorings,
and for sidewalks. The latter process was
first introduced in Neufchatel, Switzerland.
Artificially prepared, tar may be similarly
employed, after it has been deprived of its
oil by di3tillation. The catastrophe of Sodom,
and Gomorrah may have had some connec-
tion with, if not been absolutely caused by
vast natural stores of this inflammable petro-
leum. At least, we find immense accumula-
tions of hardened rock oil in the centre and
HISTOBY OF PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 91
around the shores of the Dead Sea, where it
has been converted by oxidation into rosin-like
asphalt. The pieces floating upon its waters
are now frequently, in the convents of Jerusa-
lem, cut into ornaments, such as rosaries, the
beads of which, when genuine, have a strongly
bituminous odor. Another early and curious
use of petroleum was made by the Egyptians,
whose religious belief in the return of departed
spirits caused them to revolt against the law of
nature commanding "dust to dust," &c. Not
only was every human being embalmed, but
also all the animals considered as sacred. In
many cases, native bituminous matter appears
to have been used as a preservative, its creasote
rendering it a very excellent one. In this age
of steam, utilitarianism, and curiosity, many of
these mummies have been borne away by ma-
rauding travellers, and, in some instances, have
been used to supply the fires of locomotives.
Thus has nature reclaimed her dues. I^ is not
decided whether the Egyptians obtained native
petroleum, as they might from the Island of
Zante, on the west coast of Greece, whose
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springs are described by Herodotus, or whether
they prepared artificial pyroligaeous acid for
the purpose of embalming.
Another celebrated locality for bitumen,
which dates back beyond the historic period, is
Birmah, in the Rangoon district, upon the Irra-
waddy in Northern Asia. Five hundred and
twenty wells sunk in beds of sandy clay and
clay slate, yield annually more than 400,000
hogsheads of this oil, which' is also known as
Bangoon tar or Birmese naphtha. Through-
out the whole empire of Birmah, and many
other parts of India, it has been used for centu-
ries for purposes of illumination, as a medicine,
for rendering timber weather-proof, and for
preserving it against insects. For two centu-
ries, Amiano and other places in the north of
Italy, have furnished a profusion of naphtha,
and the cities of Genoa and Parma were lighted
with it. Over large districts in Persia no other
illuminating material is used. The phenomena
it presents cause the region to be called the
Field of Fire, and made Bakoo the sacred city
of the Ghebers, or Fire- worshippers. Ojn the
HISTORY OP PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. 98
island of Trinidad, in the West Indies, petro-
leum exudes not only from springs and rocks
in the usual way, but it has formed a lake two
to three miles in circumferenee ; warm and
liquid in the centre, where it seems always
slowly boiling, but thickening as it recedes
from this point, till at the margin it is cold and
solid. Persons may walk upon it at pleasure
when the weather is cool, but not so when
it is hot. This Lake of Tar, as the inhabitants
call ill; is said, by travellers, to be underlaid
with coal. Dr. Gesner gives the following
description of it.
"The bitumen, of the consistence of thin
mortar, was flowing out from the sides of a hill,
and making its way outwards over more com-
pact layers towards the sea. As the semi-solid
and sulphurous mineral advances, and is ex-
posed to the atmosphere, it becomes more solid,
but ever continues to advance and encroach
upon the harbor. The surface of the bitumen
is occupied by small ponds of water, clear and
transparent, in which there are several kinds of
beautiful fishes. The sea, near the shore, sends
up considerable quantities of naphtha from sub-
94 COAL OIL AND PKTEOLEUM.
terranean springs, and the water is often
covered with oil, which reflects the colors of
the rainbow."
In our own country, before its colonization,
and perhaps before its discovery by Columbus,
petroleum was known to the Seneca Indians.
According to a tradition among them, its ex-
istence was revealed to one of their chiefe by
the Great Spirit in a dream. He was directed
to proceed to a certain spQt, where he would
find a liquid oozing from the ground, which
should become a healing balm to his tribe.
They seem to have collected it chiefly from
the surface and banks of two streams, both of
which have since received the names of Oil
Creek ; one being in Alleghany County, New
York, and the other in Venango County,
Pennsylvania. Along the borders of the latter
there may still be seen the remains of ancient
pits, which must have been dug by them to
catch the exuding petroleum. They employed
it for medicinal purposes, and in many religi-
ous ceremonies; but its chief use was as a
medium for dissolving the rude paints with
HISTORY OP PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 95
which they adorned themselves. They sold it
to the early colonists as a specific for rheuma-
tism and various other affections. The' white
people called it Seneca oil, after the tribe which
chiefly used and bartered it, and considered it
a rare and very efficacious remedy. It is re-
corded that the usual method of .collecting it
was to throw a Jiog across one of the oil
streams, and to stop the surface oil by laying
blankets upon this log. When it had accumu-
lated sufficiently, they wrung the cloths over
vessels provided to hold the liquid. More
than a hundred years ago, at the time of the
French and Indian war, the commandant of
Fort Duquesne — which stood precisely where
Pittsburg now stands — wrote a letter to Gene-
ral Montcalm, in Canada, giving a very inte-
resting account of a great Indian assembly
in the night on the banks of Oil Creek. In
the midst of their ceremonies, the oil that had
collected on the water was fired, and simulta-
neously they shouted and danced about* the
flames.
Although the white settlers learned all about
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tbe oil springs from the Indians, they gathered,
perhaps, not more than twenty barrels annu-
ally, jmd this was solely consumed for medi-
cinal purposes. The idea never seems to have
struck them that, by deeper excavation, the
supply might be much increased, nor that its
quality and usefulness could be much enhanced
by distillation.
Oil was first obtained by boring in 1819. In
sinking wells for salt on the Little Muskingum
Eiver, in Ohio, one or two wells sunk dis-
charged vast quantities of petroleum and gas
in an explosive manner. Although Dr. Hil-
dreth states that it was in some demand for
lamps in workshops and manufactories, and
that he predicted that it would be a valuable
article for lighting the streets of the future
cities of Ohio, yet for over thirty years it was
not used in this way.
In 1845, in boring for salt water upon the
Alleghany Mountains, near Pittsburg, a petro-
leum spring was struck, but its products were
bottled and sold in drug shops at a high price.
In 1854 one of the springs on Oil Creek
HISTORY OF PBTBOLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 97
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was purcbased on speculatioD, and tho oil
examined and reported upon, but notbing
farther seems to have been done until 1858,
wben two New HavAi gentlemen resolved to
continue tbe search for oil wells. One of
them, Colonel Drake, removed to Titusville,
Crawford County, and began his arrangements
for boring into the rock below the bed of the
creek, and in August, 1858, the oil stratum was
reached, at the depth of seventy feet. A pump
was introduced, which raised at first four
hundred gallons, and afterward one thousand
gallons daily. Business immediately assumed
a new aspect in Venango County and there-
abouts. The wildest fever of speculation soon
ensued. Lands rose enormously in price.
The length of time considered ixecessary for
the making of a fortune was that requisite
for^the sinking of a shaft. The land on either
side of French Creek, Oil Creek, and part of
Alleghany River was perforated with wells,
and the derricks for working the drills stood
up in the yards and gardens of the villages a^
thick as masj;s in a harbor. The wells varied
98 COAL OIL AND PETBOLEUM.
in depth from sixty to six hundred feet. The
Empire Spring was of the latter depth, with a
hose leading from it to a reservoir three hun-
dred feet higher; yet tb% pressure of the gas
which issued with the oil forced it up the
whole nine hundred feet. The celebrated
Phillips Well yielded three thousand barrels
per day. When a well was apparently ex-
hausted, the supply could often be renewed
by drilling a little deeper.
In Ohio, not far from the Pennsylvania bor-
der, the people had noticed a strong taste of
oil in the water of the vicinity, and this, after
the success of the wells in Venango County,
induced them to make a similar attempt.
Petroleum was reached at the depth of sixty
feet; and within six months^ after this there
had been seven hundred wells sunk. Bitchie
and Wirt Counties, Virginia, have also been
found to produce good oil. The first attempt
in New York was made about a year and a
half ago, in Alleghany County, near a famous
pool, which had always been known as " the.
oil spring." Even before the iron pipes could
HISTOBY OF PETROLEUM OR ROOK OIL. 99
be driven down to the rock, the oil, mingled
with water, rushed up like a fountain. The
jets of gas which accompany the petroleum
are often very profuse and long continued.
In Chautauqua County, N. Y., they have been
secured and made use of to light the town of
Fredonia, and the light-house in Portland Har-
bor, on Lake Erie.
Previously to this time, in consequence of
the usefulness of the oily products of coal
introduced by Mr. Young, in Glasgow, some
gentlemen in Canada — foremost among whom
was Mr. Williams, of Hamilton — formed
themselves into a company, and acquired the
lands in Enniskillen, on which superficial de-
posits of a tarry bitumen occur. Their inten-
tion was to use this substance as a substitute
for coal in the manufacture of such oils, it
having been ascertained to contain 80 per
cent, of volatile matters. It was soon dis-
covered that, on penetrating through the bitu-
men into the clay beneath, the material could
be obtained in large quantities in the fluid
state. In 1857 Mr. Williams bored into the
earth on the shore of Lake Huron, in Canada
100 COAL OIL AND PKTROLKUlff.
West, and pierced a reservoir of oil. His
saccess at once induced the sinking of wells in
Pennsylvania.
The Canada oil district has surpassed all
others in the immense amount it has produced,
allowance being made for the fact that the num-
ber of wells is comparatively small. In 1862
the three hundred Enniskillen Wells, on Black
Creek, produced, within an area of two square
miles, at a minimum, four hi>ndred gallons
each per day. One of the wells spouted, for
many days afber it was finished, from four to
five hundred thousand gallons daily. Another
was only second to it in yield, and, with five
or six others of remarkable richness, did con-
tinue for several months to pour forth this
flood of oil, much of which was wasted for
want of proper reservoirs, or an adequate sup-
ply of barrels.
Petroleum coming from different, localities
often differs in consistency from the fluidity of
naphtha to the viscidity of tar. In color, speci-
mens vary from extreme yellow to deep black,
and some have a greenish or reddish hue.
HISTORY OF PBTROLBUM OR ROCK OIL. 101
The Canadian oils contain more parafi&ne in so-
lution, and have a greater specific gravity (0.9)
than American samples, which, while rich in
light oik as a rule, have only the specific gravity
0.8,
The heavier hydrocarbon oils are non-ex-
ploaive and safe, while the use of the lighter
and more volati]e ones, such as naphtha, some-
times sold uoder various fictitious names, as
** liquid gas/^ ** vesper gas,'* &c., are as dangerous
as the older burning fluids, manufactured from
strong alcohol and oil of turpentine, and which
invariably exploded when their volatile vapors,
mingled with atmoapheric air, came in contact
with a light. They have coat hundreds of lives
in our country.
The native coal oils of Pennsylvania and
Canada belong to the first class — i. e., do not
explode in lamps and cans. This has been
determined by actual esperimeot.
Of the samples of American petrolenm, tested
by the Manchester Sanitary Commission, two
formed an explosive vapor with air at 60 deg.
F.; four at 100 deg. F.; three at 120 deg, R,
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and twenty at 150 deg. F. Nine specimens out
of thirty -two were pronounced very dangerous.
The British government has legislated on the
subject, virtually forbidding the sale of those
oils which take fire and explode at or below
100 deg. F. The proportion of these light oils
in petroleum may vary from thirty to ninety
per cent.
Fig. 1.
Naphtometer.
HISTORY OF PBTBOLEDM OB ROOK OIL, 103
Several apparatus have been patented for
tbe purpose of determining the temperature at
which different kinds of petroleum are likely
to explode.
Parrish* recommends the following con-
struction of which we give a drawing, Fig. 1.
A thermometer F, inclosed in a capsule,
passes through a cover D into the oil to be ex-
amined. A tube with wick surrounded by a
chimney S and a screen E are placed opposite
the thermometer. The vessel is charged first
with water upon which the oil is poured next
and the apparatus heated in a water-bath and
the wick lighted.
Through the opening L an air current with
an admixture of oil vapor is formed, which
shortly takes fire with a slight explosion, put-
ting out the flame. The temperature at which
this happens is observed.
Wells often take fire by accident, and the
injury consequent, both to property and hu-
* Proceedings of the Amer. Pharm. Association at the
tenth annual meeting held in Philadelphia, 1862.
101 COAL OIL And petboleum.
man life, is the most serious. Says one writer :
" In the autumn of 1861, a well about three
miles up Oil Creek was lighted by a cigar
while thirty or forty people were standing about
it, of whom fifteen were killed instantly by the
explosion, and thirteen seriously injured. A
column of fire with its head rising and falling
from thirty to fifty feet continued to burn.
The Little and Merrick well exploded on April
17th of the same year, just after it had been
deepened, and before the boring was finished.
A most terrible scene ensued ; the atmosphere
was filled with the sickening gas or fiames, and
the ground for a long distance was a sea of fire.
Four wells lost everything, including 500 bar-
rels of oil, and much other property. Only six
persons lost their lives, although a large crowd
stood near at the time of the explosion. All
night this magnificent spectacle was continued.
A steady rush of pure oil, nearly one hundred
feet in height, and never ceasing its flow,
burned with the noise like the roar of a heavy
surf; sending volumes of black smoke up over
the tops of the surrounding hills." On another
HISTORY OF PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. 105
occasion no less than seven flowing and three
pumping wells, with thirty thousand barrels of
oil, and the surrounding woods, were in flames
at once. The blazing surface of Oil Creek
added to the grandeur of the sight.
In some instances the gas has become ignited
and burned for weeks, the mouth of the well
being converted into a mighty gas burner,
from which a flame has risen many feet in
height. Only a few months ago, a gentleman by
the name of Jacob Crowe was sinking a well
on George's Creek, Fayette County, Pa., and
when the drill struck the oil deposit, a powerful
volume of carbo-hydrogen gases ascended to
the surface, filled the atmosphere, and coming in
contact with a stove in a shanty some distance
from the well, a terrific explosion ensued, and
flames darted into the air sixty feet high ! For-
tunately no one was injured, and the flames
were finally subdued; but the experienced
borers never permit fire aiiywhere near the
well upon which they are working.
On Oil Creek most of the oil is found in the
same stratum of sandstone; but in Canada it is
106 COAL OIL AND FBTBOLSUH.
often lodged in a magnesian limestone, judging
from a specimen which we have examined.
John Steele, of Oil Creek valley, is said to
derive an annual income of $750,000 firom
wells on his premises. A correspondent of the
New York Herald states that he was ferried
across the creek by an "oil prince," aged fif-
teen, heir to a million, coatless, hatless, and
with but one suspender.
Some idea of the magnitude which the oil
business has reached, may be obtained from the
fact that a strip of land two mile» broad and
twenty in length, on both sides of Oil Creek is
estimated to-day at two hundred and fifty mil-
lions of dollars, worth four years ago but four
dollars an acre. It will be borne in mind that
this is but a very small portion of the oil region
of Pennsylvania alone.
The manufacture of barrels is also a good
illustration of the same truth. In many parts
of the State, whole communities of barrel-
makers have sprung up, as in Birmah large
villages of potters supply the earthen vessels
there used for the same purpose. A serious
HISTOBY OP PETROLEUM OR BOCK OIL. 107
loss was at first experienced from leakage. In
a single journey to New York, a barrel of oil
lost one-tenth, and this in spite of every pre-
caution. The lighter oils of petroleum per-
sistently penetrate the pores of every wood, so
that in a voyage to Europe barrels often became
entirely empty. Many inventions sought to
remedy the difficulty, the most valuable of
which is the following: a mixture of glue, gly-
cerine, and molasses being melted, is applied to
the inner surface of the barrel, and is then
washed with' a solution of tannin. By this pro-
cess a leather-like compound is formed, which
securely confines the most penetrating oils-
The same compound, with the exception of the
glycerine, is used in the formation of printers'
rollers.
Another process of lining barrels consists in
the employment of soluble glass or silicate of
potash, either alone or in union with other
substances.
A recent number of the "American Druggists'
Circular" contains the following statements : —
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Petroleum in Pennsylvania. — The Petroleam
produced in the State of Pennsylvania was sold
at the wells for $56,000,000 during the last
twelve months, while the iron and coal of
Pennsylvania only produced $50,000,000. In
Philadelphia the daily sales of petroleum stocks
at the regular stock exchange board are over
$200,000. The number of petroleum compa-
nies organized is about one hundred and fifty,
and in New York about eighty.
Petroleum in Pittsburg. — The whole number
of petroleum refiners in Pittsburg is fifty-eight,
with a total capacity per week of 26,000 barrels.
The value of real estate, buildings, and ma-
chinery is $2,534,000, and the value of 'bils
refined, 88,599,223, and the wages paid per
annum amount to $350,000.
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CHAPTER IX.
BOEING OP OIL WELLS.
Petroleum occurs in rocks of very different
geolo^cal ages, from the lower Silurian up to
the Tertiary period, inclusive. In Europe and
Asia these deposits are mostly confined to the
more recent secondary and 4^rtiary formations,
whilst in the United States the oil wells are
mostly sunk in the sandstones which form the
summit of the Devonian strata. Those of
Enniskillen, near Lake St. Qlair, in Canada, are
situated much lower in the carniferous lime-
stone. Petroleum is seen to impregnate mostly
limestones, sandstones, and shales. The rule
amongst miners is, that the harder the rock
may be to drill, the lighter in color, purer in
quality, and smaller in quantity, is usually th
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oil obtained therefrom, aod Che softer ihe rock,
the darker and more abundant the oil.
Wells are sunk either by persons owning
the property or by companies. Some of the
original owners of the land will not sell, and
sink wells on their own account, generally
realizing an ample fortune in a short time. In
other cases wells are.sunk by companies, under
the direction of a superintendent, and the ex-
penses paid from a sum set apart as a working
capital. Before a well is sunk, a spot is chosen
on which to commence work. This location
is determined by the dip of rock, course of
stream, burst of an upheaval, concentration of
ravines, and other marks governing oil men,
the failures and successes of others being of
great benefit in making selections of spots for
wells. The oil springs in Ohio, originate gene-
rally near the anticlinal lined, as seen in the
accompanying diagrams, Figs. 2, 8, 4, 5,
sketched by Prof. E. B. Andrews.* A derrick,
resembling^the frame of an old-fashioned church
ateeple, is erected over the spot chosen. This
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derrick is about forty feet bigh, ten feet square
at tbe base, tapering to four or five feet at the
top, where a pulley block is affixed, through
which runs a rope to work the drill and hand
up the boring tools, sand-pump (a tube or
pump which is used to clean out the chips
from the hole made, by the drill), tubes, rods,
etc., used in sinking or working the well. A
long box, about eight inches square, is then
put down till the lower end rests on the bed
rock, be it one or fifty feet. This box is
called a conductor, and its use is to steady the
drill which work^ up and down inside of it.
The cost of erecting a derrick is from sixty
dollars to eighty-five dollars, according to its
height or plainness, ^nd the work is done by
almost any man« acquainted with the use of
carpenter's tools. The conductor costs from
$15 to $80, according to the depth at which
the bed rock is reached. The drill is a heavy
iron chisel with rounded and sharpened end.
It is about three feet long, and weighs from
seventy to one hundred pounds. It is worked
up and dowp by means of .a rod or rope
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attached to the upper end. This chisel is ,
followed* by a reamer, made like the drill,
except the end is square. It breaks down the
little irregular juttings of rock left by the
drill. The reamer is followed by the sand
pump, which cleans out the debris. To work
the drill and other tools necessary to sink a
well, spring poles, resembling im old-fashioned
well sweep, are sometimes - used. Spring
poles are cheaper than engines at drst, but
not so good. The relative cost of boring is
as follows : With spring poles, $3 to $4 per
foot. Engine, ^^2 50 ixx^S 75 per foot. This
is the price paid to men who take the contract
t& sink the well, the employer finding all the
tools, and if the work be done by an engine,
the fuel and oil to work the same. This price
" includes the cleaning out of the well and putting
in the tubing, but not the cost thereof, which
is about sixty cents a foot. The range of price
is governed by the depth of the well. The
usual expense is from five to six thousand
dollars.
A well can be put down one hundred and
BOBma OF OIL WELLS. 116^
fifty feet quicker and cheaper, with Spring-
pole than with steam power. The*readOn ia
that, starting at the same time, the spring-
pole can be erected, and the drill- be ^own
thirty or forty feet, before the engine can be
set, housed, and made ready to run. But,
once in operation, steam power drives ahead,
passing the spring-pole drill at about one
hundred and fifty feet below the surface.
- . For developing a bow oil region, for in-
stance, ther sectiofT about iFishkiU, Hxe^r the
Hudson Eiver, ' where therfe ari numerous
unmistakable indications of petroleum, wells
could be put down at less expense, and to
better advantage, by spring- poles than with
engines. The same rule will apply with equal
force where there is a "show," but not, as in
Wtstern Virginia, that absolute certainty of
great oil wealth, which but awaits the drill
and pump to yield steady streams of petroleum
to reward and enrich the operator.
A twelve-horse power engine costs, delivered
on the ground ready for work here, about two
thousand four hundred dollars ; a set of tools
116 COAL OIL AND PKTROIiKinf.
complete, three hupdred and seventy-five
dollars. From the above figures men will see
how much it will cost to sink a well. Tanks
cost about two hundred dollars, but this
expense need not be incurred till the oil is
reached. The building over the engine to
protect it from rain and storms costs about
three hundred dollars. The barrels are fur*
nished by the refiner, who takes the oil from
the tank, pays his own cost of transportation,
barrelling, etc., and keeps you supplied with
empty barrels. This saves the question of
transportation to parties owning or operating
wells»
Bope tools are now used by all, except old
fogies. They are less liable to accident, and
are more convenient to draw the drill, reamer,
and sand-pump, than the stiff continuous p^le
tools.
The primitive style of seed-bag, an old
boot-leg, filled with flaxseed, which expands
when wet, is still used. A better invention is
demanded— one that-will not provokingly give
way just at the wrong time, to the delay of the
BORING OP OIL WELLS. 117
works, and serious loss to the owners. These
seed-bags, I remark for the benefit of those
i^rho maj not know the meaning of the term,
are contrivances let down the hole, t)utside
the tubej for the purpose of keeping back the
air of water, or stopping some little crack in
the rock through which the drill passed, A
boot'leg, ^lled with fiaxaeed, was found to
answer the purpose, hence the namep Oil men
will hail with delight a new invention which
will be certain to do the work, and be leas
bungling and more easy to manage.
Oil 'tools can be best and cheapest procured
in Pittsburgj New York, Philadelphiaj or some
other place where they are to be had on order.
Parties about developing oil-lands cannot be too
particular in the selection of good machinery.
Poor weak machinery is a nuisance, and its
cheapness a curse, especially when the means
for repairing are not close at hand.
We are often asked how ^t a man can bore,
or how many feet a well is sunk in a day. The
answer depends on circumstances, according to
the nature of the rock. Some days the drill
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will make fifteen or twenty feet; again, it will
pound all day and not penetrate more than
twenty inches. The average is about eight
feet a day; The best plan is to work two gangs
of men, from twelve to twelve, and without
stopping drive down as fast as possible till the
oil is reached. Very much of the success or
failure of a company depends upon the skill,
capability, genius, and business tact of the
superintendent. One man works to kill time,
looking more for sunset than for oil, indifierent
as to all things save drawing his wages. An-
other man attends to business, is quick, prompt,
energetic, and interested in the welfare of his
employers. One good superintendent is worth
twenty poor ones, and ^n take charge of a
score or more of wells, simply requiring brains
to plan and a mind to direct the labor of others.
Companies cannot be too careful in this respect,
as daily observation has abundantly proven.
A new process of boring is on trial at the
Gillette Company's wells, on the McElhiney
tract, Pennsylvania, under the management of
Mr. J. T. Briggs. The process is of French in-
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Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. Fig. 11.
Temper«screw. Drill-stem. Drill. Beamer. Boood reamer^
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Fig- 12. Fig. 13. Fig. 14.
Pipe-tongs. Jarr. Sand'pamp.
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yentioD, and tbe patentee personally saperin-
tends its working. This is the first time it has
ever been tested, and the progress of the expe-
riment is watched with great interest by well
owners. The principle is that of cutting out a
hole instead of pounding it. The drill is cir-
cular and hollow, being a thin tube, set at its
lower edge with Brazilian diamonds, of hard-
ness sufficient to cut glass. It is connected by
an iron rod to bevelled cog-wheels attached by
cranks and rods to the walking beam of the
engine. The surface of the upper rock being •
cleared, the drill sits on it and revolves with
great rapidity, cutting its way down at a rate
astonishing to old well borers, and leaving a
centitil core standing. A clamp is let down
which grips the core and jerks it up in the form
of a perfectly smooth cylinder. Water is poured
down the hole to assist the cutting process, until
the natural flow from the springs cut supplies
the want. The portions of the core shown ex-
hibited the stratification of the rock, and will
go £eu: to settle some vexed questions about the
BORING OF OIL WELLS. 123
strata which cannot be ascertained by the ordi-
nary method of drilling.
Five feet of rock had been cut at the rate of
four inches in five minutes, or ninety-six feet
per day, when some changes were required in
the machine, and it was removed for alteration.
The patentee is satisfied that he can put down
a well of five hundred feet deep in ten days, at
no greater cost to the well owner than by the
present tedious process, which takes from two
to four months..
An oil well was being bored near Detroit,
Michigan, and when the drill had reached a
depth of seventy feet a current of gas escaped
which blew out the drill and tools, weighing
eight hundred pounds; blew off the shed, roof
of the derrick, forty-five feet high ; and hurled
forth a stream of water, gravel, and large stones.
The workmen narrowly escaped with their lives.
The water was strongly impregnated with pe-
troleum.
124 COAL OIL AND FBTSOLBUIC
CHAPTER X.
ORIQIK OF PETROLEUM.
Petroleum is doubtless a product of chemi-
oal deoomposition, derived from organic re-
mains, plants, and animals, whole generations of
whicfi perished and accumulated during many
destructive revolutions at the various ages or
epochs of our* planet As to the manner in
which these oilj hydrocarbons were originally
produced, scientific men are still divided in
opinion. Some believe that they resulted, like
the artificial oils we have dwelt upon, from a
dry distillation^ — ^.e., the effects upon vegetable
tissue of heat, such as hot gases, or steam gene*
i*ated by volcanic action, untold ages, before^
our solid earth had acquired its present thick-
ness and stability of surface. Many other
theories have gained some grouhd, though
ORIGIN OP PETROLEUM. 125
mostly with the vulgar, as scarcely any of them
are more coherent and rational than the old
oil-king's extrayaga.nt supposition of a buried
shoal of whales*
That petroleum is of vegetable, or rather or-
ganic origin, is too manifest from its compo-
sition to require argument. There are, per-
haps, but two opinions in regard to the man-
ner of its production which deserve notice at
our hands. The first is that the oil was derived
during the first bituminization, or conversion
of woody fibre into coal. The other maintains
that, by a process of distillation, coal beds, or
bituminous rocks, such as schists and slates,
have yielded up their oily matter, which they
derived from plants and animals. Even under
the first hypothesis it might have been pro-
duced in two ways ; for we may heat or char a
vegetable substance like wood rapidly, with the
total exclusion of air, and without the possi-
bility of escape for the gaseous and liquid pro-
ducts, or we may suffer it to undergo a sponta-
neous decomposition under the same conditions
of absolute confinement, and under so great a
11*
126 COAL OIL AND PSTBOLBUM.
pressure that at the commencement of the pro-
cess the products evolved might be retained.
In both cases the same result would be attained,
t. 0., the formation of stone -coal| oils, and
gases, although in the latter case sufficient
time — perhaps thousands of years — ^must . be
granted. Experiments of the former kind,
t. e^ charring of wood in hermetically sesded
heavy cast-iron vessels, were actually executed;
not so much to explain the origin of coal oils,
then (1841) scarcely noticed, as to establish the
experimental proof of th^ formation of stone coal
from vegetable matter. Contrary to the usual
suppositpn of fi microscopic cellular structure,
cannel and similar varieties of coal show, by*
their conchoidal fracture and total want of an
organized or cellular constitution, that they
must have been in a softened or even liquid
condition. Dr. A. Petzholdt* succeeded in .
preparing three varieties, of coal in this way,
viz: coke, charcoal, and cannel coal. The
* Dr. Alexander Petzholdt. Ueber Calamiten und Stein-
kohlenbildung. Dresden and Leipzig, 1841, pp. 17-28.
OBIGIN OF PETROLEUM. 127
latter result was obtained when the products
of distillation were entirely retained, or could
only have escaped, through the pores of the
cailt-iron boxes. In this case the space occu-
pied by the coal was f»ne-half that of the wood ;
the resulting product was dense, burned readily
in a candle flame, and was^destitute of vegeta-
ble structure ; from which he concludes that a
decomposition of vegetable matter is possible
in which the carbon is dissolved in the gaseous
and liquid products formed at| the same time*
Monsieur Barouler, by placing vegetable mate-
rial in an apparatus made of wet clay, and
capable of being strongly compressed, ^nd ex-
posed for a long-continued time to a tempera-
ture ranging from 392 deg. to 572 deg. F.,
produced ordinary coal.
Against this theory of oil formation by the
original bituminization of vegetable matter, it
has been objected that the presence of bitumi-
nous coal beds, made of land or fresh water
plants, should be accompanied by correspond-
ing quantities of oil. Such is not found to be
the case, since the oil, instead of beiug found
128 COAL OIL AND P£TBOLEUM.
in contact with coal deposits, occapies nsuallj
cavities of overlying rocks, perhaps produced
long after the coal; and further, it* is often m^t
with miles awaj from any coal field. It has also
been held that upon such a«upposition it would
be difficult to account for the large volumes of
inflammable gases which exist with the oil.
In answer to these objections, it may be urged
that the immense pressure to which all these
substances were subjected would naturally ope-
rate to compel the condensed volatile products
to seek as high a level as they could reach, and
the consequence would be, that, having pene-
trated the shaly formations, already, perhaps,
charged with the heavier hydrocarbons, they
would at last find a resting place as petroleum,
and remain pent up until the drill of the oil
speculator gave them vent. By the same cause
the oil might have been forced miles away, from
the place of its original distillation ; although
it is safe to affirm that in most localities of the
United States where petroleum is found, the
deposit has some geographical connection, at
least with coal-bed regions, whether these be-
OBIQW OP PKTBOLEUM. 129^
long to the oldest coal formations, as those of
the Devonian and carboniferous systems, or to
the much moi*e recent oolitic and tertiary age.
It is said that tertiary coal beds underlie ihot
Rangoon oil wells. Tertiary lignites abound in
Trinidad, Lombardy^.and Middle Asia. As an
exemplification of the pressure to which thia
putrescent flora was submitted, we may instance
the fact that in the most recent deposits of lig-
nites, stems of trees, upon which one hundred .
annular rings could yet be counted, were so
flattened that one diameter exceeded the other
four to eight times;
It is well known that, in the common peat
bogs of the present day, the cryptogamous
plants composing them give oS at their firsts
stages of decay considerable quantities of at
combustible hydrocarbon known as marsh gas,
together with nitrogen, some carbonic acid, and^
water.* Now the ancient coal measures origi-
nated from a terrestrial flora, in stagnant waters,
* BeitrUge zar Erkenntniss der Eusammensetzang and
Bildung dea Forfes, von Dr. Jastus Webskj, in Joum. f.
Prakt. Chemie, Bd. 92, 1864. Heft 2, p. 65.
130 COAL OIL AND PSTROLBUK.
wbere vast bogs of gigaQtio crjptogamoas
plants — as tree-like ferns, club mosses, horse-
tails (calamites), &o. — were buried, and after-
wards converted by ages of time, tremendous
pressure, and tbe agency of beat (at least in the
c^e of anthracite), into coaL It is not possi-
ble to conceive that these processes could have
gone on without the liberation of gaseous as
well as liquid products in large quantities.
Chemists have separated from petroleum as
many as twelve volatile fluid hydrocarbons,
homologous with marsh gas (C^H^,), i. e., form-
ing, as it were, a progressive series of that first
and lowest member. The rate of increase
bein^ 0,H^ as C,H^,C^H^,C«Hg, &c., &c. An ad-
mixture of olefiant gas (O^H^,) as it is usually
met with in gas springs, could be easily«^ ac-
counted for, since we know that an elevated
temperature acting upon vegetable matter will
produce it. Many of the heavier hydrocarbon
oils entering into the composition of petroleum
are homologues of the hydrocarbon C^H^, the
last and highest member of which is probably
paraffine, C^ + n H^ + n.
ORIGIN OP PBTEOLEUM. 181
It might be objected to the formation of these
gases that there was no room for them to ex-
pand under such a pressure, and that conse-
quently they could not originate. But we know
from recent experiments of Deville, Troost, and
Cailletet, that combustible gases at a high tem-
perature will even penetrate heavy iron tubes,
such as gun barrels ; how much less resistance
would certain rocks offer?
An important item in accounting for the
source of heat is the established fact that min-
erals, salts, &c., in the act of crystallization set
free a great deal of latent heat. The amount
is at times so great that lava nearly cold has
been seen to become again glowing. It is also
interesting to know that miueral masses may
dissolve large quantities of gases before becom-
ing solid; thus Cailletet and Pilla observed that
cold lava, after the eruption of Vesuvius in
1861, evolved marsh gas and hydrogen. From
this it likewise follows that the atmosphere of
the crater inclosing the melted lava consisted
in a considerable degree of these gases, and
that they were taken up in the same manner
182 ^ COAL OIL AND PBTHOLBUH.
as oxygen is absorbed by melted silyer, again
to be set £ree as soon as crystallization b^ns.
The annexed table"*" abows how, in the pro^
cess of bituminization, the proportion of oxy-
gen decreases as we proceed towards cidet
carboniferous formations. It has been pre-
pared from a large number of analyses, and
will give at a glance the comparative com-
position of all these varieties of carbonaceous
deposits, from wood down to anthracite coal.
The carbon is represented by 100 in all cases,
so as to enable us to compare the succes-^
sive changes in composition which take place
from wood to coal. The small amount of ni-
trogen and of ashes are left out in the state*
ment: —
m.
♦ From a Coarse of Lectures by Dr. Percy, at the Lon-
don School of Mines.
ORIGIN OP PETROLEUM. • 183
Carb. Hjdrog. Okygen.
Woody tissue
100
12.18
83.07
Feat ....
100
9.85
65.67
Lignite
100
8.8
42.42
South Staffordshire coal-
100
6.12
21.28
Steam coal from the Tyne IQO
fi.91
18.82
Semi-anthracite coal
from South "Wales .
100
4.75
5.28
Anthracite from Pa. . 100 2.84 1.74
Finally the chemical qualities of petroleum
prove that it must have been produced by a
process analogous in result to the dry distilla-
tion of peat. The native oils of the United
States differ considerably from the artificially
prepared from bituminous coal, for they yield
with nitric acid little or no artificial oil of Wtter
almonds (nitro-benzole), or the precious aniline
dyes mentioned in connection with coal oil
They are composed mainly of volatile hydro-
carbon oils obtainable at low temperatures from
turf. Pelouze and Oahours remark that the total
absence of benzine or any of its homologues
in American petroleum, would seem to indicate
12
134 COAL OIL AND PBTRQLEUM.
that this oil could not be derived from coal
unless this latter had undergone a decomposi-
tion very different to that which takes place
when it is submitted to distillation.*
The other theory which regards petroleum as
derived from bituminous shale or coal by a pro-
cess of distillation has also its objections ; the
chief of which is, that such coals in our oil
regions furnish no evidence of having lost any
of* their normal quantity of bitumen. At
Petroleum, Kitchie County, Virginia, where
strata have been brought up 'by an uplift from
several hundred feet below, seams of cannel
and bituminous coal appear, which, when ana-
lyzed and compared with Nova Scotianor Eng-
lish coals, have lost no bitumen — afigict all the
more surprising when it is remembered that
freshly-mined coal undergoes even at a tem-
perature little above that of the atmosphere,
but under increased pressure, the first step of
bituminization, ^. €., disengages marsh gas or the
* This sweeping conclusion seems inadmissible^ con-
sidering Schorlemmer's analysis of cannel coal oils. —
Journ, Chem, Society, xv. p. 419.
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM. . 135
*
so-called fire-damp so dangerous to miners. As
the temperature increases, liquid hydrocarbons
begin to appear.
We have indeed good reasons for believing
that the bitumen associated with schists and
shales is rather the result than the cause of
petroleum, i. c, that bitumen consists of har-
dened drops of the latter.
Prof. H. D. Eogers' observations are im-
portant in this connection.
He states that the amount of volatile sub-
stances in the Appalachian coal fields decreases
in passing from west"'to*east; and thatj at the
western limit, where the strata are still hori-
zontal, {he proportion of volatile matter may
reach forty to fifty per cent. On the eastern
side, where the strata have been actually turned
over, the coal contains only from six to twelve
per cent. Sir Charles Lyell, commenting on
these observations, remarks : " There is an in-
timate connection between the extent to which
the coal has parted with its gaseous contents
and» the amount of disturbance which the
strata have undergone. The coincidence of
136 COAL OIL AND PSTBOLBUM.
these phenomena may be attributed partly to
the greater facility aflfbrded for the escape of
volatile matter, when the fracturing of the
rocks had produced an infinite number of
cracks and crevices, and also to th*e heat of the
gases and waters penetrating these cracks, when
the great movements took place which rent and
folded the Appalachian strata." According to
the theory under consideration, we should ex-
pect to find oil in immense quantities wherever
coal measures have parted with their bitumen ;
whereas, exactly the reverse is proved to be
the case — it being borne in mind that deposits
of oil are found only in the western portion of
the coal fields, and that, in the eastern, where
the coal is almost entirely anthracite, none
have been discoyered.
There being, probably, no organic deposit,
either entirely animal or vegetable in its nature,
but all more likely being composed of both, it
is safe to conclude that bituminous oils are of
a mixed origin in this respect .In Canada,
l^ew York, and perhaps in Kentucky, where
oil is found in the Devonian rocks below the
ORIGIN OF I'ETROLEUM. 137
old red sandstone, it has been suspected to be
mostly of animal origin, because these strata
were formed long before the oldest coal mea-
sure, and exhibit no remains of a land flora.
In cavities formed in the rock by some fossil
animals, as the huge chambered shelled ortho-
ceratites, some of which .were many feet in
length, considerable quantities of petroleum
have been found, but so fetid as to be offensive.
Most rocks have been formed by marine depo-
sitions of earthy matter, inclosing, in great pro-
fusion, the remains of those extinct animals
which peopled the ancient oceans. Theser fossil
shells are distributed everywhere, from the
dawn of paleozoic life up through each suc-
ceeding age. The same is relatively true in
regard to plants, even if that marine and scanty
flora should not have been preserved, or failed
to leave traces of its existence behind. It is
a law of nature that vegetable life precedes that
of animals; or, differently expressed, all ani-
mals are slavishly bound upon the existence
of plants, siribe all derive their food directly or
indirectly from them.
12*
188 COAL OIL AND PETBOLEUM.
The reign of plants in fhe carboniferous era
commenced when land and water no longer
struggled for predominance, for they are essen-
tially terrestrial or fresh-water formations,
presenting the appearance of huge swamps,
composed, with few exceptions, of plants which
might flourish either in or out of stagnant
water.* The period must have been one of
long, uninterrupted, and quiet growth; the
climate a warm and uniformly tropical one,
and the atmosphere probably highly charged
with water and carbonic acid — conditions very
favorable for the rich development of plants,
though unsuitable for the respiration of higher
animals. Indel^d, at the present time, in the
damp and warm climate of the South Sea
Islands, ferns and equisetaceous -plants assume
a- tree-like habitus. Th^ decay of, this very
extensive cryptogamic flora, extending far up
to the north, must have been slow, and have
taken place generally under water. The oxy-
* Lesqnerenx, Am. Jour. Soi.,> toI. 32, 1861 ; and
Oswald Heer's Urwelt der Sohweiz, Zarich, 1864.
ORIGIN OF PETBOLEUM. 139
gen being thereby excluded, the carbon would
be preserved.
In Southern Ohio and Western Virginia the
petroleum is apparently found in the coal mea-
sures themselves ; but the wells have often to
b6 sunk through them into the sandstone and
slates below before they become productive.
From the black shales, which immediately
overlie the corniferous or Devonian lime-
stone, the oil springs of Canada We3t issue ;
and from this fact the origin of the petroleum
of these regions is held by the best geologists
of the Province to be principally animal.
Prof. J. P. Lesley writes :* " The connection
of the oil regions with the coal basins. of West-
ern Pennsylvania and Virginia, Eastern Ohio
and Kentucky, is, in good measure, a geogra-
phical deception. Tl^e Oil Creek rocks, dipping
southward, pass 500 or 600 feet below the coal
measures. The nearest coal bed to the more
northern springs occurs on the highest hill-
tops, many miles away. The hills in the vici-
nity of some of the wells are capped by the
* Article on coal oil in Agricultural Refiortjl8Q2f p. 443.
140 COAL OIL AND PBTBOLEUM.
conglomerate base of the coal measures at least
a hundred feet thick. The shales and sand-
stones of the valley belong to formations X,
IX, and VIII, desQcnding, called by the New-
York geologist the Catskill, Chemung, and
Portage groups, extending over all the south-
ern counties of Western New York. The
southern dip carries down these oil-bearing
rocks, and the wells must deepen in the same
direction. Mr. Eidgeway reports (July 10,
1862) the lowest oil-bearing sand rock, cap-
ping the hills near Waterford, on Le BoeuflF
Creek, and the same sandstones appear on Big
French Creek, full of plant remains.
"The following wells show the dip in a
well- marked manner: The Phillipps Well, on
Oil Creek, is 460 feet; the Brawley Well, at
the mouth of Cherry Eun, 503 feet; the Corn-
wall Well, 530 feet; the Avery Well, over 700
feet ; and at Titusville he estimates the proper
depth at 1,000 or 1,200 feet.
• " In the Mahoning Coal Oil region in West-
ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, near the
line, the three oil-bearing sand-rock strata are
beneath the lowest coal bed."
ORIGIN OF PBTROLBUM. 141
Sir William Logan* has pointed out that
a line drawn through London, Burlington
. Bay, Zone, and Chatham, marks the summit
of a flat, anticlinal arch (resembling' a house
roof), upon which the principal oil fields are
situated. The same strata in which it is found
dip away until in Michigan, on one side, they
are proved to be pne^thousand feet below the
surface, and in Pennsylvania, on the other, they
underlie the great coal-measures. It will thus
be seen that the surface rocks of the oil region
in Canada are the same upon which the great
layers of the true carboniferous or plant-pro-
ducing era are based in other localities. In
Canadian rocks of the Silurian'and Devonian
jges, bituminous beds, and evolutions of gase-
ous and liquid hydrocarbons occur throughout
the whole system; and in the Hudson Eiver
group of rocks, in which there are but slight
traces of vegetable life, these oils have been
obtained. The upper beds of carboniferous
limestone, and the entire mass of Hamilton
shales are charged to excess with organic (and
* Canadian Joum. New series. Vol. vi., 1861, p. 319.
142 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
mostly animal) remains. It is believed that
at the time when the region in question was
covered to a great extent by the waters of the
ocean, a few species of aquatic plants, with
various animals of a low order, such as cri-
npids, which grew on a stem like a vegetable;
brachiopods, which were a kind of shell-fish ;
and trilobites, a large prustacean, ^nd many
others, flourished in wonderful profusion. As
the floor of the sea gradually sunk with the .
cooling of the earth-crust, successive genera-
tions of these must have been buried in the
waters, and covered by mineral and earthy
deposits. Under such circumstances a slow,
dry distillation might gradually take place, the
products of which are preserved for the use of
man in the innumerable fissures of the rocks.
The organic matter, scattered in such abunr
dance along the shores, would commence to
decompose in the ordinary manner under the
influence of air and moisture: but when, after
putrefaction, it was covered with layers of sand
or calcareous mud, and thus removed from
atmospheric action, the resulting gases would
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM. 143
be confined as in a closed retprt, and the car-
bon and hydrogen, being greatly in excess of
the oxygen, would enter into such combina-
tions as we find subsisting in petroleum and
the various hydrocarbon gases. That the
Canadian oils furnish no conclusive proof in
their component parts of an animal origin, is
not to be urged against the evidence afforded
by the strata in which they are found. Ani-
mal and vegetable tissues, when confined with-
out the presence of oxygen, will give products
quite closely resembling each other. Indeed,
chemists have long since proved that some of
the lowest classes of mollusks now living, to
which the name of Tunicata has been given,
have much the same composition in their
mantle or covering as woody fibre. It is well
known that the smell of Canadian oils is far
more offensive than those of the United
States. The same is the case with Michigan
oils, and may apply to Kentucky and other,
oils found in sub-carboniferous strata. The
subjoined extract, from a recent newspaper
contains many facts in support of the state-
ments already made.
144 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
"An active general interest has been awak*
ened with regard to the petroleum region of
New York, and it is safe to say that the time
is not far distant when the Pennsylvania oil
wells will be paralleled, if they are not dis-
tanced, by those actively operating in the former
great State. In Cattaraugus County several
wells are now working, and in Ontario County
boring for oil is now being extensively carried
on. In order to furnish our readers with
some information in regard to the geographical
characteristics of the Genesee valley oil region,
we give below two engravings showing the
position and comparative thickness of the vari-
ous strata at a point in this region where two
wells are now going down. We are permitted,
through the kindness of Walter S. Hicks,
Esq., of Bristol, Ontario County, who is en-
gaged in sinking several wells, to use in our
description portions of a private letter ad-
dressed to that gentleman by Professor James
Hall, the State geologist. Some thirty wells
are now going down in the locality referred to,
iand great excitement is said to exist through-
out the whole region.
ORIGIN OP PKTROLBUIC
Fig 15.
145
SECtlON SHOWING THB STRATA AITD FOBMATIOK OF THK
HILLS BOUNDINQ THB YALLBT.
1. Portage group. 2. Genesee slate. 3. Hamilton group.
"Professor Hall says : *The Hamilton group
is, for the most part, a close, compact shale,
with few bands of calcareous matter, and few
open fissures.' Therefore, he thinks, oil is not
to be expected in any paying quantity until
the Marcellus shale, in which there is often a
thick band of limestone, is struck ; but he con-
cludes, it will be necessary to go down to the
corniferous limestone, or even through it, to
the Onondaga salt group below, before finding
a rock sufficiently fissured or cavernous to con-
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146
COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
Fig. 16.
Horison of a well on Wilder
galley.
Horiion of a well on Hick's
farm
SECTION SHOWING THE STRATA AND FORXATION FROM THE
SURFACE TO THE POINT WHERE OIL IS LIKBLT TO BB
FOUND IN PATINQ QUANTITIES.
1. Portage group, forming the hills — thickness in all, from'
600 to 800 feet.
2. Genesee slate— 150 feet.
3. Hamilton group, consisting of calcareous limestone, with
calcareous bands and a black, bituminous shale at base.
4. Marcellus shale — thickness, together, with that of the
Hamilton group, 600 to 800 feet.
5. Gorniferous limestone, 50 to 150 feet.
6. Onondaga salt group, consisting of impure and unequally
bedded limestones, beds of plaster, &o.f entire thickness, 800
to 1,000 feet.
ORIGIN OF FETROLEUM. 147
taiu any considerable reservoirs of oil. Pro-
fessor Hall is also of the opinion that, at the
same time, more or less salt water, and per-
haps strong brines, will be found.- He adds
that there are sometimes small'masses of sand-
stone just below the corniferous limestone, and
if one of these should be struck, a reservoir of
oil would be penetrated. Large quantities of
water are to be expected before oil is reached."
Having thus spent considerable time in the
notice of such methods of accounting for the
existence of petroleum as have gained most
ground, let us rapidly observe the manner in
which it is stored away beneath the surface of
the earth, and also some of the best '* oil signs."
The opinions of geologists, briefly stated,
are as follows: That the bituminous vapors
originating from organic deposits have pene-
trated fissures and cavities of overlying rocks
caused by erosion and uplifting. As bubble
after bubble passed through the water gener-
ally collected in these fissures, a portion, being
condensed into oil, would float upon the sur-
face of the water, and the remainder, in -the
148 GOAL OIL AND PBTBOLEUK.
form of inflammable gases, would occupy the
top of the fissure. Where the gas finds an
outlet, there is produced a "gas spring;"
where the water escapes it carries the oil with
it, and an " oil spring" results.
That the oil is accumulated in fissures in
the rocks, and that these fissures are more or
less vertical, i. e^ narrow and upright cavi-
ties, is decisively proved by the following
&cts:—
1. The oil in the same immediate neighbor-
hood is found at very different depths, and it
is very seldom that two adjoining wells strike
it at the same distance benesfVh the surface.
2. The oils of wells very near each other
may show a gre&t diflFerenoe in density, color,
&c.
8. The oils from two wells not many rods
apart may not only vary in specific gravity,
but the deepest well may contain fresh water,
while the other casts up salt water mingled
with the oil.
From these observations it is evident that
the oil is not found in horizontal lakes or re-
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM. 149
servoirs, but in separate, distinct, and more or
less vertical cavities. Several of these may be
connected, however, by some channel, and
thus the supply be quickly replenished when
one spring or well has ceased to flow.
According to the point of the fissure struck
in boring, different material may be yielded.
If it is pierced near the top, gas escapes with
violence, but subsequently, as the water tends
to rise higher in the space thus vacated, the
oil is also carried to the end of the boring,
and may be pumped out. If, however, the
water should enter more rapidly than it is re-
moved, the oil DMiy be floated to the higher
parts of the cavity, and cannot be recovered
until the latter is pumped away. If the
middle portion of a fissure be tapped, oil ap-
pears at once in the well, and may even be
forced up violently by the accumulated gas
pent up^above.
In locating oil wells, the following practical
hints may prove useful. There exists no such
thing as a specific oil rocJc, or stratum indi-
cating the presence of oil; as certain distinct
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150
COAL OIL AND PETBOLBUM.
geological foliations indicate and are found
associated with some of the precious minerals
Fig. 17.*
and metals. Oil* may be struck in all hinds of
rock, for the fissures containing it may extend
vertically through many dififerent strata. Nor
can anything be determined before hand from
the shape and proximity of hills, as is the case
in boring artesian wells.
* Rook Oil, its Geologioal Relatione and Distribution, bj
Prof. Andrews^ Amer. Jour, of Science and Arts, vol. 32, 1S61,
pp. 85-93.
OBIGIN OF FSTROLEUH. 151
The flow of oil would seem to be caused ex-
clusively by the pressure of pent-up gas, and
not, as is the case with artesian wells, pro-
duced by the weight of water, the head of
which is higher than the issue. If the position
be true, that the oil is generated from coal and
other bituminous strata, we should expect to
find it at a greater or less height above the
latter; and indeed Professor Andrews Has
found oil springs high up on hill sides, one
hundred feet above the valley below.
The presence of oil on the surface of water
is no sure sign of its existence beneath,
because it may have been transported from a
distant source. A more favorable indication
is the accumulation of viscotis, hardened oil,
as seen in many localities, and called '^tar
springs." These, as also gas springs,* are valu-
able omens.
It should be remembered that whatever
may be the common idea, no oil well is inex-
* In locating wells it should be remembered that oil
and gas springs may have risen to the sarfaoe in a tortu-
ous and not in a vertical direction.
152 COAL OIL AND PETBOLEUH.
haustible, for no fissure, or system of fissures,
can endure the drainage of a steam-pump for
any great length of time.
The experience of other regions has re-
vealed the fact that some ancient oil springs
have ceased to flow, whilst others, like thos6 of
Birmah and Persia, continue to flow as they
have for ages past apparently.
•We find in the N. Y. Journal of Commerce
of April 27, 1865, the following just remarks
on this subject of the uncertainty of oil wells : —
" There is nothing more uncertain than an
oil well. If it* graciously chooses to do so, it
yields oil in great or small quantities ; but if
its will be perverse, no amount of coaxing
will draw out the oleaginous treasure. Nei-
ther can it be safely predicted that a well
which yields a dozen barrels to-day will yield
one to-morrow. They have a well in Athens
County, Ohio, says a correspondent of the dn-
cinnati (7a2je<fe, which, when sunk to the oil-
rock, suddenly spouted forth such a stream of
oil as to threaten the oleaginous overthrow of
all that county. But after a while the flow
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM. 153
subsided, and from the reservoirs hastily con-
Btructed in the ground one hundred barrels of
oil were afterwards collected ; since that there
has been but one well that 'blows,' as the
workman express it. That well, soon after
being opened, began to throw out oil to the
height of twenty feet, but only for a short
time. Last summer, for a considerable time,
it observed a regular period of twenty-foUr
and one-half hours between ^ these 'blows,'
each day the phenomenon occurring half an
hour later than on the previous day. At last
when the time for its 'blowing' reached far
into the night, it lost its regularity, and now
seems to be governed by no law, but still
keeps 'blowing' almost daily. When sup-
plied with a pump and engine, it stubbornly
refused to yield at all, and the engine and
pump w^re taken away, when the well re-
sumed its 'blowing.'' From another well
nothing was got for several weeks but water ;
after being sunk and giving the usual indica-
tions of oil, it was tubed and prepared for
pumping. To the dismay of the company,
154 COAL OIL AND FETBOLfiUtf.
onl/ water was obtained as the result of the
first day's work. Water flowed abundantly
the second day, but no oil. The third day
was but a repetition qf the first two, and the
well was about to be abandoned. One mem-
ber of the company, however, suggested the
idea that the water might be exhausted by
constant pumping, and that then oil would be
obtained. Being an obstinate man, his counsel
prevailed, and^ day and night, without ceasing,
the tireless . engine pumped water a whole «
fortnight. Still no oil. Another fortnight
and only water appeared; another and another,
when lo I the flow of water ceased, and the
flow of oil began. Eight weeks of constant
clinging to a theory brought a triumph to the
obstinate member, and a reward to the whole
company. On one occasion since, when for
some reason the engine was stopped for half
an hour, it required nearly twenty-four hours
pumping to clear off the water. Again when
a belt broke and caused a stoppage of fifteen
minutes, the same thing occurred. The well
is now kept constantly running, and produces
from twelve to fifteen barrels a day."'
GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION. 155
General View op the Geological Distri-
bution OP Petroleum in the United
States and Canada *
The lowest geological horizon or rock stra-
tum in which petroleum is found in large
quantity, is in West Canada at Enniskillen.
The oil is in the corniferous limestone. This
formation in the United States is, in its maxi-
mum, about 350 or 400 feet thick.
Immediately overlying the limestone is the
marcellus shale, which is also highly charged
with bitumen. It is about 50 feet thick in
Canada. These two rock-formations, then,
which in Canada are not over 150 feet in thick-
ness, are. the reservoirs holding rock-oil in that
country. Ascending in the geological scale
and passing over into New York, the next stra-
tum of rock yielding bitumen, oil, and gas, is
* From an article in the Scientific American. Compare,
also, History of Petroleum, by T. S. Hunt, in the London
Chem. N'ews, July, 1862 ; also Natur. History of New York,
Part IV. Geology, by James Hall, Albany, 1843.
156 OCTAIi OIL AND PBTROLBCM,
there known as the Hamilton Groap, about
1000 feet thick. The oil springs of Western
New York, along the banks of its numerous
lakes, are mainly in this group of rocks.
They have as yet yielded oil only in small
quantities for medicinal purposes, but promise
very fair.
Above this group succeed black shales,
known as the Genesee Slate, 300 feet thick.
The wells of Mecca, Ohio, and others of that
region are most prdbably in this rock. Above
the Genesee Slate comes in the Portage Group
of slates and sandstones, 1700 feet thick. The
deeper wells of Oil Creek, Pa., will reach the
sandstones of this group. Still above lie the
rocks of the Chemung Group, which are
mainly composed of thin bedded slates and
limestones. In its maximum it is 3200 feet
thick, but in Western New York and Pennsyl-
vania it is much thinner, being only about
1000 feet thick. Much of the oil of Oil Creek
is from this group ; 400 or 500 feet of it are
seen in the cliffs and hills of Oil Creek, the
Alleghany Eiver and its tributaries above,
and in Venango County.
GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUliON. 157
Measured in the maximum development of
all the rocks enumerated, we find between the
oil of Canada and Venango County, Pa., 6000
to 7000 feet of sedimentary rock, all of which
bear the appearance of having been deposited
in sea- water. The entire group of rocks enu-
merated are know a as the Devonian Series
in Engliind. The oil springs of Eastera
Canada and New Brunswick, along the Gulf
of Newfoundland, are in the upper membera
of this series.
Leaving for the present those portions of
the United States where oil has been most
successfully found, and before comiag into
the geological strata of the thick and heavy
oilfl^ we have on the eastera flanks of the
Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania and
Virginia, 5000 feet of the Gatskill group of
rocksp (Ponent of Prof. Bogers.) Lapping
around the southern outcrop of the coal
measures of Tennessee^ Kentucky, and Illinois,
there are 200 feet of the lower carboniferous
and 800 feet of the middle carboniferous.
(Umbral of liogers.) A total in the aggregate,
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158 COAL OIL AKD PSTBOLSUM.
as measared in Nova Scotia and th% United
States, of 1500 feet.
Throughout the whole of the series oil and
gas springs are found.
We now come into the true coal measures.
These are divided into lower, middle, barren,
and upper measures, a total of the bituminous
portion of 2500 feet.
The lowest member of the coal series caps
the highest hills, near the mouth of Oil Creek,
and lies about 600 feet above the bed of the
creek, or 1300 feet above the third sand-rock,
which is the most abundant oil-producing stra-
tum.
At the Kiskiminetas, Slippery Eock,' Butler
Co., Pa., and Smithes Ferry, oil is in the lower
coal measures— €00 feet thick. High up
Kiskiminetas and on the Monongahela Biver,
oil is found in the middle coal series 1000 feet
thick. At Marietta, Ohio, and in the oil region
around the strata of the upper coal, are the
productive series.
To conclude, then, oil is found through
' 24,000 feet of rocks, as measured vertically in
GEOLOGICAL DISTBIBUTION. 159
the geo]pgical scale, and geographically from
Nova Scotia to Lake St. Clair, and from Vir-
ginia to Tennessee Eiver. The geographical
area covered by the oil-beariug group of
rocks in the United States, Caoadaj New
Bruuswick, and Nova Scotia, cannot be lesfi
than 200,000 square miles,
160 GOAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
CHAPTER XI.
PREPARATION OP ANILINE DIRECTLY FROM COAL
TAR; AND ITS PROBABLE ORIGIN. — ARTIFICIAL
PREPARATION OP ANILINE FROM BENZOLE;
TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATTER INTO ANI-
LINE. — PROPERTIES OF ANILINE. — CHEMICAL
TEST FOR BENZOLE.— COLORING PRINCIPLES
DERIVED FROM ANILINE — THEIR MODE OF
PREPARATION AND APPLICATION IN DTEING.
Amongst the most interesting discoveries
of modern times, must be ranked that of pre-
paring from an oily substance named aniline^
a whole series of the most superb dyes, causing
almost a revolution in the art of dyeing and
printing. Aniline or phenylamine» CjaH^N, or
=«N < Q*o; constitutes an artificial organic
alkaloid analogous to ammonia =«= NH3 ; the
PROPBRTIES, ETC., OP ANILINE. 161
radical |)henyles=CijH, replacing one equiva-
lent of hydrogen. It may be obtained in mani-
fold ways for laboratory purposes thus : —
Powdered indigo digested with a strong
solution of caustic potash and subjected to dis-
tillation yields a small amount of aniline.
From the indigo plant {Indigo/era anil) it de-
rived its name, Aniline, synonymoufi with
Kyanole, 13enzidam, and Crystalline.
It is now always prepared for industrial pur*
poses from coal tar,
Ist. It may be procured directly from coal
tar, i. e,j as a biproduct in the manufacture of
the heavier photogenic oils and of parafSne.
These oils are, as stated elsewhere, decolorized
and purified by means of acids and alkalies;
now the ready formed aniline forms, together
with leucoline, picoline, &c., a portion of the
dark brown acid wash,
Pr^aralion of Aniline directly from Coal Tar,
The ready formed aniline is extracted from
coal tar oils as^ follows, according to Uof-
mann: —
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162 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
The mixture is agitated with rather concen-
trated hydrochloric acid, and the supernatant
layer of oil separated from the acid liquor;
this latter is brought in contact with new
quantities of oil until nearly saturated, so that
only a slight acid reaction prevails.
This solution is now placed in a copper still
and treated with an excess of milk of lime, and
distilled.
The condensed products in the receiver are
collected, carefully dissolved in hydrochloric
acid, and filtered through coarse filtering'
paper, which retains that portion of indiflFerent
oil floating on the rest of the liquid.
The filtered solution is concentrated in a
water-bath and treated with hydrate of potash
or soda, whence the basic oil or aniline sepa-
rates and swims on the top of the alkaline
liqu9r. It is removed with a pipette, brought
in contact with melted hydrate of potash to
deprive it of water, and rectified. The receiver
is changed and the operation suspended as
soon as the product passing over furnishes no
longer, upon addition of a few drops of chio-
PROPERTIES, ETC., OP ANILINE. ' 168
ride of lime solution, the purple reaction of
aniline.
Origin of Aniline in Coal Tar.
The answer to the question as to how^ this
alkaloid originates in eoal tar seems to be this,
It must be derived from carbolic acid or the
hydrated oxide of phenyle found therein to
the amount of eight to ten per cent. For if
this bod J together with ammonia gas is passed
through a red -hot tube, the following reaction
takes place: —
C„H.O+HO + NH3 = -[^=^^'| + snO
Hj(1 rated oxuLe \
of plienjltt or I'l'-^^^^^^^'^'^^^ll^B* "h Water,
carbolic iiciii. J
It has been ehown that a small amount of
aniline may be produced by saturating car-
bolic acid with ammonia, heating the mixture
in a hermetically sealed glass tube to 572*^ F.
by means of an oil bath» Indeed ^ if we heat
in a test-tube a little carbolic acid preyiously
saturated with ammonia^ we obtain upon the
164 GOAL OIL AND PBTBOLEUM.
addition of a few drops of chloride of lime
solution the blue reaction of (impure) aniline.
On the contrary, aniline, may, when acted
upon by nitrous acid—NOg, be decomposed
into carbolic acid.
Cj^,N + NO3 = C„H,0+HO + HO + 2N
Aniline. Nitrous Carbolic Acid. Water. Nitro-
Aoid. gen.
The experiment succeeds best by heating
hydro-chloride of aniline with nitrate of silver
=AgO,N03.
It appears possible that hereafter aniline
may be advantageously produced by distilling
nitrogenous substances, such as bone black, &c.,
together with the bituminous coal.
Dr. R. Wagner* has experimentally proved
recently that, by passing superheated steam
(at 300° C.«572° F.) and vapors of phenic acid
(heavy tar oils) over alkaline cyanides, for
instance cyanide of barium, the amount of
aniline is largely increased.
* Jahresberioht, 1860 ; also L. IP. Krieger's repeatedlj
mentioned treatise, p, 45.
PROPERTIES, ETC., OF ANILINE. 165
Artificial Preparation of Aniline.
A trnich more fruitfal source wbence ani-
line may ba prepared is benzole^ entering into
the com]}Osition of coal tar naphtha. Benzole,
or the hydride of phenyle, haa the forranla
^Cj,n^j or Cj^ITjHp The process of manu*
factnring aniliae from benzole cod slats in the
following two operations : —
1. Conversion of benzole into nitro-benzole.
2* Kednction of nitro-benzole into aniline.
The preparation of nitro benzole on a com*
mercial scale is accomplished in a worm-like
apparatus made of glass or stoneware. The
upper end terminates like the pronga of a
fork in two branches. Through one of these
openings fiowa benzole, and throngh the other
a fine stream of fuming nitric acid, or a
mixture of commercial nitric acid with half
its volume of salphuric acid. The worm is
surrounded by cold water. The oitro-benzole
collected at the lower end of the worm is first
washed with water, then with a solution of
166 GOAL OIL AND PBTBOLEUM.
carbonate of soda, and next deprived of its
water by means of chloride of calcium and
rectified.
Nitro-benzole has the chemical formula
- O^H^O, •
or, more rationally expressed,
Its formation from benzole is explained by
the following equation : —
c^H,+H+NO, - c »H;sro, + HO
Transformation of Nitro-benzole into Aniline.
Nitro-benzole when acted upon by different
reducing agents such as sulphide of hydrogen,
metallic zinc, acetate of the protoxide of irou,
and acetic acid, loses four equivalents of
oxygen, and takes up two of hydrogen, being
thereby converted into aniline. B&hamp
recommends that for the advantageous reduc-
tion of one part of nitro-benzole, there be
employed one part of acetic acid, and one and
PROPBBTIES, ETC , OF ANILINB. 167
one-half parts of iron filings ; the reaction may
be expressed as follows: —
C^jH^NO, + 2Ac + 4Fe «
Nitro-benzole. Aoetio Acid. Iron.
C„H,N + 2(AcFeA)
Aniline. Acetate of Peroxide of Iron.
The reaction takes place in a retort of iron,
and the mixture becoming hot by itself, with-
out the aid of external heat, the vapors are
condensed in a well-cooled receiver containing
some acetic acid. The condensed products
consist of aniline, acetate of aniline, and also
some free nitro-benzole. These are retained
in the retort, and distilled to dryness.
The distilled liquor is treated with fused
caustic potash, whence the aniline separates
as an oily layer, which, after being removed,
is distilled again.
The residue in the retort still contains a
good deal of aniline, which is extracted with
sulphuric acid^ and the ablution filtered and
evaporated to dryness. The remainder is
sulphate of aniline, from which, by means of
an excess of potassa liquor and rectification,
168 COAL OIL AND PBTBOLSUM.
the aniliDe is obtained. Theoretically we
ought to obtain from one equivalent of nitro-
benzole, one equivalent of aniline, t. e^ 75.6 per
cent. In practice we obtain about |, t. e.^ 60
per cent.
Chemical Properties of Aniline.
Pure aniline is a colorless liquid, having an
aromatic odor, and a burning taste. It is
slightly soluble in water, and easily soluble in
alcohol and ether. The commercial article is
generally brown colored, and of a coal oil-like
odor.
Chemical Test for Benzole,
As it becomes often necessary to examine
a mixture of oils for benzole, and as there are
as yet such contradictory statements in regard
to its presence in petroleum, the following test
by Prof. Hofmann may be applied : —
A drop of the mixture is heated in a test-
tube with some fuming nitric acid, to convert
the benzole, if present, into nitro-benzole. A
quantity of water is then added to precipitate
PBOFBBTIES, ETC., OF ANILINE. 169
the nitro-beozole in small drops, which must be
taken up by ether. The ethereal solution is
then poured into another small tube, and equal
volumes of alcohol and diluted hydrochloric acid
are next added and a few fragments of granu-
lated zinc dropped in. In a few minutes suffi-
cient hydrogen will be disengaged for reducing
the nitro-benzole into aniline ; the latter is found
to be combined with the acid. The liquor is
super-saturated with an alkali and shaken with
ether, which dissolves the aniline thus set free*
A drop of this ethereal solution allowed to
evaporate in a watch-glass, and mixed after
the evaporation of the ether with a drop of a
solution of hypochlorite of lime, will show
the violet tints which characterize aniline.
The operations may be executed rapidly and
easily.
Aniline is now prepared by the ton to satisfy
the constantly increasing demands of industry ;
hence the consumption of benzole has become
so great that none can be imported from Eng-
land, formerly the chief place of export for the
European Continent.
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170 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
The tar of all the gas works, which, at least
where the retorts of Chamotte are employed,
does not contain over 1 to 1} per cent, of ben-
zole, is insufficient to meet the demand, and
consequently much of it will have to be directly
distilled from coal. Fortunately great purity of
benzole is not required in the manufacture of
the so-called tar colors, if it is at all advan-
tageous. . **
Thus Hofmann considers that there exists -a
necessity of mixing aniline and toluidine, to
produce aniline red.
Preparation op Aniline Colors.
Nearly all oxidizing substances in contact
with aniline produce coloring. Many different
receipts are frequently recommended for pre-
paring one and the same color. We have
practically convinced ourselves, that by varying
the quantitative proportions of the materials,
changing the temperature of the bath, and em-
ploying different mordants, almost any variety
of colors and shades of color may be obtained,
PROPERTIES, ETC., OF ANILINE. 171
at least on wool and silk * The colors on
cotton appear less fine and varied.
Until a comparatively recent period, objec-
tions were raised against aniline colors, on
account of their want of durability when ex-
posed to sunlight, etc.; it was said that these,
equalling in beauty the tints of flowers, had
also their fragility, but even these objections
have now in a great measure been overcome,
and in some cases entirely removed.
The colors are fixed upon fabrics with and
without mordants. The following mordants
are usually employed : alum and cream tartar,
cream tartar and tin composition, tannin, etc.
To fasten the dyes upon cotton fabrics, the
goods have to be albuminized, or prepared in
an oil bathf like turkey red, or in a soap bath.
In printing . goods with aniline colors the
solutions are thickened with albumen, gluten,
.gum, etc., and the printed goods steamed.
* A great variety of colored patterns, inolxiding, besides
the leading colors, also olive, drabs, brown, etc., have been
prepared for the mnsenm of the Department of Agriculture.
t Composed of sweet oil, sulphuric acid, alcohol, and
water.
172 COAL OIL Am) PBTROLBUM.
In the following we give a few practical
receipts to prepare leading colors; to enter more
fully into the matter would require a treatise
by itself*
1. Aniline Bed, syn., tviih Fuchsine, Fuchsiacine^
Mosaniline, and Magenta.
It may be obtained in the following manner
according to Brooman : —
Three parts of anhydrous bichloride of tin
(spiritus libavii fumans) are slowly poured into
four parts of aniline, stirring the mixture con-
stantly, and heating it to boiling for fifteen to
twenty minutes.
When cold the mass is pasty, and the color-
ing principle may be extracted from it by boil-
ing with large quantities of water and filtering
the solution whilst hot. The fuchsine separates
as the liquor grows cold.
* To those interested in this new and highly interesting
branch of industry, we would recommend the following
treatise as the best : *' Theories und praotisohe Anwendung
von Anilin in der F&rberei und Druckerei, Ton Lndwig L
Krieg 2te Aufl." Berlin, 18 62.
PBOPERTIKS, BTO., OF ANILINE. 178
Additions of chloride of sodium, Bochelle salt,
etc., deposit it more completely. It is collected
and dissolved in hot water, alcohol, or wood-
spirit, and the solutions employed for dyeing.
Fuchsine is also soluble in ether, benzine,
and bisulphide of carbon.
The fuchsine when evaporated to dryness
assumes a metallic, golden green aspect.
* In the following table are enumerated some
of the other processes by which fuchsine, fre-
quently of a somewhat different composition,
may be prepared from aniline.
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2. Aniline Violetj syn., tmih Violine, Indisine^
Pourpre Frangaise^ Anileine^ Phenamein^
Mauve.
There exist different shades of this color,
either the blue or red tint prevailing, whence
the adoption of the additional names —
Aniline purple,
Eoseine (color of the rose).
They are evidently most closely allied, are
formed under the same circumstances, and
have almost identical properties toward chemi-
cal reagents.
Purple.
W. Perkins and A. H. Church mix equiva-
lent proportions of sulphate of aniline (Tolui-
dine, &c.) and bichromate of potassa. ^he
black precipitate is filtered ofi^ washed with
water until free from sulphate of potash, and
dried. The dry product is treated with coal
tar naphtha, to extract resinous matter until the
solvent ceases to be brown. After this, the
mass is repeatedly boiled with alcohol or wood
176 COAL OIL AND PETROLEUM.
spirit, which extracts the desired coloring prin-
ciple. The solutions, when distilled in a
retort to regain the solvent, leave a beautiful
bronze-colored substance behind. It has a
reddish hue, and is known as Aniline purple.
Vtoline.
Dr. Price proceeds thus : —
1 equivalent of anilineas(93 parts).
2 equivalents of sulphuric acid (98 parts
spec. grav.« 1.850), are mixed.
20 parts of- water added and the whole
boiled (212° F.).
1 equivalent of finely pulverized binoxide
of lead (119.6 parts) is added next, and the
whole kept boiling for some time and filtered
whilst hot. The filtrate is distilled with caustic
potash or soda, until all free aniline has passed
over. The residue is thrown on a filter and
slightly washed with water, and then dissolved
by a dilute boiling solution of tartaric acid.
After filtering, the solution may be concentrated
and used in dyeing or boiled down to dryness,
and the mass dissolved in alcohol, and thence
PBOPEBTIES, ETC., OP ANILINE. 177
be obtained by evaporation as a bronze colored
solid.
Instead of binoxide of lead, peroxide of
manganese may be substituted.
The dye, together with some protoxide of
manganese, is thrown down from the filtered
alcoholic extract by caustic potash^ and the
violine redissolved in alcohol.
Prof. BoUey states that a violine bath may
be prepared by treating a solution of sulphate
of aniline with chlorine water or a weak solu-
tion of chloride of lime. Silk assumes a fine
violet color in the bath when warmed.
According to the same chemist, aniline red
and violet have the same chemical composition
and are isomeric modifications.*
The annexed directions prove that a slight
change in the proportion of ingredients pro-
duces alteration in color.
♦ L. J. Krieg, p. 141.
178 COAL OIL AND PITBOLSUK.
Purpufin {Couleur de pourpre).
2 equivalents of aniline (186 parts).
2 equivalents of oil of vitriol (98 parts).
8720 parts of water.
1 equivalent of binoxide of lead (1 19.6 parts).
Or,
60 parts of aniline.
26 parts of oil of vitriol 66^ B:
1000 parts of water.
82 parts of binoxide of lead.
Roseine {Cotdeur de rose).
1 equivalent of aniline (93 parts).
1 equivalent oil of vitriol (49.0 parts).
1860 parts of water.
2 equivalents of binoxide of lead (239.2 parts).
Or,
50 parts of aniline.
26 parts oil of vitriol 66^ B.
100 parts of water.
128 parts of binoxide of lead.
A slight agitation of aniline purple with
moist binoxide of lead furnishes Roseine.
PROPERTIES, ETC., OP ANILINE. 179^
Aniline blue, according to A. Schlumberger,*
Basel.
1 part of aniline red is mixed with 8 .parts
of aniline and 1^ part of acetic acid, and the
mass treated with safficient carbonate of caus-
tic soda to decompose the acetate of aniline
formed whilst acetate of soda is now being
produced. The mixture is Tieated for some
time at a temperature between 856^ F. and
410*^ F., until the desired shade of blue appears.
The product is precipitated with strong hydro-
chloric acid; and heated to boiling, whence the
blue dye separates in a solid state, and can be
removed from the liquor with . a ladle. To
get rid of the adhering acid, it is repeatedly
boiled with water, pressed and dried. That
portion of coloring matter dissolved by the
strong acid can be regained upon the addition
of water, which precipitates a blue of a second
quality, having more of a reddish tint.
The dried blue dye is soluble in alcohol
* Lond. Jour, of Arts, and Prof. R. Bottger's Polytech-
nisohes Notizblatt, Jahrgang, zix. 1864.
180 COAL OIL AND PSTBOLEUIL
and wood spiriti and these solutions are used
for coloring.
Aniline hroum.
G. de Laire, of Paris, has taken out a patent
in England for its manu&cture. It is obtained
by acting upon aniline violet or blue with a
salt of aniline, thus : —
To 1 part of violine, add—
4 parts of anhydrous chloride of aniline,
raise the temperature of the solution rapidly
to 464° F., maintaining it for one to two hours,
until the mass turns brown, and yellow vapors
with a strong garlic odor are given off.
The brown coloring matter is soluble in
water, alcohol, and acids, and may in this form
be used for dyeing. Kitchen salt precipitates
it from the solution, and serves thus to purify
it still further.
Instead of aniline violet, the material pro-
ducing it, such as arseniate of aniline, can be
used.
PROPBRTIES, ETC., OF AKILINB. 181
Aniline greeUi according to Usebe.*
An aniline salt is dissolved in hydrochloric,
sulphuric acid, &c., and common rectified
aldehydssC^Hp added and the mixture left
standing at a common temperature for eighteen
to fwenty-four hours, whence it assumes a
greenish-blue hue; it is then diluted with
water containing a little acid to^ prevent the
blue dye from falling, and gradually hyposul-
phite of soda added. It has to be seen that
the mineral acid used for solution is constantly
kept in excess. By heating now to boiling,
sulphurous acid is evolved and sulphur thrown
down. The soliation is filtered whilst hot. If
an excess of the hyposulphite was employed,
the filtrate is yellowish-green.
The colors produced from the chemically
interesting coal-tar hydrocarbon, naphthaline,
are as yet of but slight technical signification,
and may be omitted "by us.
* Schweizer Polys. Zeitsciirift, 1864, p. 77.
16
APPENDIX.
AMOUNT OF PETROLEUM EXPORTED FROM NEW
TORE IN 1863 AND 1864, AND THE COUNTRIES AND
PLACES TO WHICH IT WAS SENT.
The increase in the oil trade during the last
two years is owing to the increased foreign de-
mand. For home consumption alone, a com-
paratively small fraction of the figures given
below would suflSce to glut the market. Europe
has greatly exceeded the United States in the
multiplicity of uses to which petroleum has
been put. Of late discoveries of its properties
have so increased in number abroad that the
supply proves inadequate to the demand.
The table shows how extensive the demand
has already become, and, together with our.
account of the article itself, will serve in some
degree to foreshadow the future. It is impos-
APPENDIX.
138
sible to foresee, with even an approximation to
correctness, the extent to which this product
will become an article of exportation and of
usefulness throughout the world.
We republish from the New York Shipping
and Commercial List :
1864.
1863.
To Liverpool .
. 734.755
2,156,851
London
. 1,430,710
2,576,331
Glasgow, &c.
. 368,402
414,943
Bristol
29,124
71,912
Falmouth, Engh
md . . 316,402
' 623,176
Grangemouth, E
ngland
425,334
Cork, &c. .
. 3,310,362
1,532,257
Bowling, Englao
d . . 87,164
Havre
. 2,324,017
1,774,890
Marseilles
. 1,982,075
1,167,893
Cette
4,800
Dunkirk .
. 232,803
Dieppe
. . . 79,581
46,000
Bouen
143,646
Antwerp .
. 4,149,821
2,692,974
Bremen
. 971.905
903,004
Amsterdam
77,041
436
Hamburg .
. 1,186,080
1,466,155
Botterdam
. 532,926
757.249
Gottenbufg
33,813
184
4 APPENDIX.
Cronstadt ....
400,376
88,060
Cadiz and Malaga, .
55,674
33,284
Tarragona and Alicante
16,823
33,000
Barcelona
25,500
Gibraltar ....
69,181
308,450
Oporto ....
17,474
* 2,339
Palermo ....
7,983
57,115
Genoa and Leghorn .
635,121
399,674
Trieste " .
165,175
'3,000
Alexandria, Egypt .
4,000
Lisbon
. 167,195
64,662
Canary Islands .
3,358
5,125
Madeira .
400
Bilboa . . • .
2,500
China and East Indies
34,338
36,942
Africa
25,195
12,230
Australia .
. . 377,884
304,166
Otago, N. Z. .
10,810
5,500
Sidney, N. S. W. .
97,880
48,013
Brazil
. 149,676
160,152
Mexico ....
. 112,986
69,481
Cuba
. 418,034
356,436
Argentine Republic .
20,260
24,470
Cisalpine Republic .
78,552
117,626
Chili .... *
92,550
66,550
Peru
. 169,061
256,407
British Honduras
6,072
440
British Guiana .
7,88i
15,104
APPENDIX.
185
British West Indies
70,976
60,931
British N. American colonies 28,902
16,995
Danish West Indies . . 8,463
31,503
Dutch West Indies
26,638
12,143
French West Indies
16,020
9,104
Hayti
7,088
12,064
Central America
993
456
Venezuela
28,583
15,455
New Granada .
56,490
107,837
Porto Eico
20,026
59,439
Total gallons
. 21,280,489
19,547,604
During the following years there has been
exported from other ports as follows:
—
i
QALL0K8.
864. 1803.
1862.
Boston . . . 1,696,307 2,049,431
1,071,100
Philadelphia" . 7,760,148 5,595,738
2,800,978
Baltimore . . 929,971 915,866
174,830
Portland • . '3
fO,762
5 342,082
120,250
10,457,188 8,703,117 4,167,158
The total exports from the United States
are —
Gallons.
1862 ..... 10,887,701
1863 28,250,712
1864 31,745,687
No. of barrels of 40 gallons each,
16*
Value from
average prices.
$14,616,923
23,686,457
1,772,102J
186
APPENDDL
AVEBAGB PRICES OP PETROLEUM IN 1864 AT NEW
YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.
Crude
Seflned
(pergaU
Lou).
(per gallon).
January .
. 31^4 cents.
52| cents.
February .
. 30i
((
55| "
March
. 31i
It
59J «
April
. 37A
u
64A "
May
. 38
u
65^ "
June
. 44i
«
77
July
. 52^
((
92
August
. 52f
(1
87} "
September
. 46^
«
85f "
October
. .401
«
75} "
November
. . 45tV
((
86A "
December
. . 52f
«
92yV "
Average for 1864
. 41.81
*
((
74.61 "
Average
for 11
363
. . 28.13
u
51.74 "
INDEX.
A
PAGB
Alcohol series of hydrocarbons .... 42
Aluminam . • 17
American Druggist's Circular quoted . . 72, 107
Andrews, Prof. E. B., drawings of the anticlinal lines
near which oil originates . . 110, 112, 113
quoted . , 150
Aniline 71
artificial preparation of .... 165
blue . . . . . . . .179
brown . . 180
chemical properties of 168
colors, preparation of 170
origin of, in coal tlr 163
preparation of, from coal tar . , 160, 161
red . . ^ 172
transformation of nitro-benzole into . .166
violet - . 175
Artificial products, comparison of, with those found
in nature . . . • . . . .66
Avery well 140
B
Baird, H. C, quoted .• ^^
Barlow, Peter, quoted 15
188 INDEX,
PAOB
Barrels • . . . 106, 116
Beech-wood tar, ingredients of .... 31
Benzine, absence of, in American petroleum . » 133
or naphtha 21
Benzole, absence of^ in some American oils • . 82
chemical test for 168
series of hydrocarbons 42
Bitnmen, elastic 68
Bitumens, localities of « 90
Bituminization, table showing the decrease in the
proiH)rtion of oxygen in 132
Bituminous shale, theory of deriyation of petroleum
from 134
oil, history of . . . ' . ' . .62
slate, distillation of 21
yield of, on distillation ... 52
Black shales, oil in . . • . • . 139
Bogs 129,130
Boring, new process of 119
of oil wells 109
time required for . • « • • • • 117
Brawley well 140
C
Cailletet, experiment of 131
Canada, oil in . . . . . .99, 100
oils 80
qualities of 101
Canadian oil region, dip of rocks in . . . 141
Cannel coal, products of the distillation of . .40
Caoutchouc, mineral 68
Chemical composition of petroleum . . 70, 73
Chemistry, influence of, on the mechanic arts • 13
INDEX.
189
PAQK
Chrysene
. 1
43
Coal as a fuel, national importance of
.
14
beds, geographical connection of oil with
128
nnder Rangoon oil wells .
129
distillation of
21
from the Tyne
133
in the United States .
14
measures, origin of
129
oil in .
. 139
Pennsylvania anthracite
133
semi-anthracite .
. 133
South Staffordshire
. 133
the power exerted by .
15
wood or turf, products obtained from
. 24
Coal oil or kerosene, purification of
. 60
tar creasote
. 35
Coal tar, distillation of
. 45
Comparison of artificial products with those found
in nature ......
,
. '66
Cornwall well
,
. 140
Creasote
. .
.
21,32
De La Rue & Miller, examination of Birmese naphtha 82
Derricks, erection of . . . . . .111
Deville, experiments of 131
Devonian rocks, oil found in Canada and New York 136
Distillation, dry, of organic bodies ... 24
of coal tar 45
Drill 111,120
Drill-stem . .120
Dry distillation, petroleum must have been pro-
duced by 133
or destructive distillation of organic bodies . 24
190 INDEX.
E
PAQB
Elastic bitumen 68
Empire spring 98
Empjrenmatic oil, history of 62
Engine, derrick, and connections • • • • 118
Engines . . . 114
advantages of, over spring poles . . .114
Eupion or light oil 31
Export of petroleum 181
Faraday, the manner in which he originally obtained
benzole 45
Fires in wells 103
Frankland, Dr., quoted 87
French Creek . . * / ^"^
French process of boring 119
Fuchsine 172
processes for manufacture of • • .173
G
Geological distribution of petroleum in the United
States and Canada . • ... . .155
Qesner, Dr., quoted 93
H
Hall, Prof. James, quoted . . . . , 144
Hard rocks contain small quantity of petroleum . 109
Hatchetin 69
Heat, source of . . • . . . .131
Heavy oil . . . . ... .32
Heer, Oswald, quoted ...... 138
History of bituminous and kerosene or empyreu-
matic oils 62
INDEX. 191
PAGB
History of petroleum or rock oil . . • ,89
Hitchcock, Professor, quoted 14
Hofmann, Prof., quoted .168
Humfrey, Charles, quoted ... . . .75
Hydrocarbons 42
I
Idrialin .69
lUumiuating power of petroleum .... 87
J
Jarr 121
K
Kapnomore . 32
Kerosene oil, history of 62
purification of 60
Kildare, chemical works at 53
L
Lake tar 93
Lava, marsh gas from 131
Lebon, his application of carbo-hydrogen gases to
illumination 27
Lesley, Prof. J. P., quoted 139
Lesquereuz quoted 138
Light oil, or eupione 31
Lignite 133
Lignites, tertiary, in Trinidad, Lombardy, and Middle
Asia 129
Linuestones impregnated by petroleum • . . 109
Locating wells, hints in 149
Logan, Sir T^illiam, quoted 141
Lyell, Sir Chas., quoted 135
192 INDBX.
PAOB
Magenta ........ 172
Magneeiam 17
Mahoning oil region » dip of rocks at . . . 140
Manufacture of photogenic oils, &c., from coal, wood,
and turf 44
Manfield & Young's patents 39
Marsh gas from lava 131
given oflf by plants in peat bogs . . . . 129
Mineral caoutchouc 68
Murdoch, his application of coal gas to illumination 27
Muspratt, Dr. S., analysis of Canadian petroleum . 79
N
Naphtha or benzine 21
Naphthaline ^ , .42
and paranaphthaline, formation of . . 44
Natural science, influence of 13
Nature, hidden force of 13
New York, oil in 99
Nitro-benzole, transformation of, into aniline . . 166
Ohio, oil in 98
oil springs in 110
Oil and coal regions, apparent connection of . . 139
business, magnitude of .... 106
Creek 94, 95, 96
geological position of oil in . . 105
rooks, dip of 139
first obtained by boring, 1819 ... 96
formation, theories of . . . . 126, 127
may have been forced by pressure far away
from place of original distillation . . -128
photogenic . . . . . ,. .24
tools, where to be had cheapest and best . 117
wells, cost of sinking . . . . Ill, 114
INDEX.
193
PAOB
Oil wells, hints in locating 149
Origin of petroleum 124
Organic bodies, dry or destructive distillation of . 24
origin of petroleum . . . . . . 125
Ozokerite, or fossil wax 69
marsh gas,
&c.
Paper, raw materials for manufacture of
Paraffine, or tar-wax
series of hydrocarbons
Paranaphthaline
Parrish, Edw., quoted
Peat ....
bogs, plants in, give oflf
or turf from Hanover, yield of
Pelouze & Cahours .
on American petroleum
Pennsylvania, oil in
oils, qualities of .
petroleum in
Percy, Dr., experiments of
Petroleum, export of
discovery and development of, properties of
geological distribution of
position of . •
history of . ...
illuminating power of .
impregnates limestone, sandstone,
in Pennsylvania .
native, discovery of
on the American Continent
origin of . . .
or rock oil, its chemical composition
prices of
17
21, 37
and shales
19
,42
42
43
103
133
129
52
81
133
,97
100
108
132
181
20
185
109
89
87
109
108
22
76
124
70
185
194 INDEX.
FAOB
Petroleum, qualities of those from different localities 101
refining of , .84
Pettenkofer*s apparatus for manufacture of gas from
wood . . . ; 27-
Petzholdt, Dr. A., experiments .... 126
PhiUipswell 98,140
Photogenic oils 24
manufacture of; from coal, wood, and turf . 44
Picamar 32
Pilla, ohservation of . . . . . , 131
Pipe-tongs . , ^ 121
Pittsburg petroleum 108
Preparation of aniline colors 170
Pressure, effect of, in forcing condensed Tolatile pro-
ducts to seek a high level 128
Prices of petroleum . 186
Products of distillation of cannel coal and their
chemical composition .... 40
of wood, coal, or turf 26
Purification of coal oil 60
^rirple * . . .175
-Purpurin , . , 173
Pjrene .43
Q
Quinn, A., patent still . . . . . ' . 86
R
Eangoon oil, analysis of 75
Reamer 114,120
Refining of petroleum 84
Reichenbach, discoveries of ... . 31, 39
discoveries of constituents now prepared from
petroleum . .• . . .- . 20
INDEX
195.
Retinite or retinasphalt • • • • • • 68
Retinasphalt or retinite 68
Rocks, dip of, in the Oil Creek region • • . 140
. Rogers, Prof. H. D., observations of, on volatile sub-
stances in Appalachian coal fields • . 135
qnoted 15
Rope tools, advantages of '• . • • .116
Roseine . . 178
Round-reamer 120
S
Sand-pnmp . • . . .
Sandstones impregnated by petroleum •
Schorlemmer's analysis of cannel coal oils
his examination of oils
Scientific American quoted
discoveries, facts in regard to
important .
Seed bag • • . •
Seneca Indians
Shales impregnated by petroleum
Shaw, Thomas, quoted .
Spring poles
advantages of, over engines
Strata at Bristol, Ontario County, N.
114, 121
109
134
82
155
13
16
116
94
109
71
114
115
145,146
Tanks
. Tar, beech-wood, ingredients of
constituents of, from bituminous slate
of, from peat or turf •
Tar-wax or paraffine • • . •
Tate, A. N., analyses of petroleum .
quoted ......
116
31
52
53
37
76
88
. 196 INDEX.
FAQB
Temperature, variation of resnlts with . • 44, 55
Temper screw . . . . • . . . 120
Thermometer for determining the temperatures at
which difft^rent oils explode .... 103
Titusville 97
dip of rocks at 140
Troost, experiment of 131
Turf, products obtained from 24
U
Uncertainty of wells 152
V
Vegetable matter, dry or destructive distillation of 25
Venango County 97
Violine 176
Vohl, Prof., analysis of Rangoon oil ... .75
W
Websky, Dr. Justus, quoted . . . . . 129
Wells, uncertainty of 152
West Virginia, oil in . . . , . . 98
Wood, coal, or turf, products obtained from . .24
Wood tissue . 133
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have been largely adopted and thoroughly discussed in Europe."—
" The German PolUical Lexicon,^* Edited by BlurUichli and Brater. Leiptie,
1858.
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influential cUizent of Luzerne County. Pennsylvaniaf to Henry C. Carey,
Apnl 3, 1869.
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*'A Southern man mvself. never given to tarifi* doctrines, I confess to
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and Centralization— Of Competition— Of. Population— Of Food and
Population— Of Colonization— Of the Malthusian Theory— Of Com-
merce—Of the Societary Organization— Of Social Science.
" I have no desire here to reproach Mr. Malthus with the extreme
lightness of his scientiflo baggage. In his day, biology, animal and
vegetable chemistry, the relations of the various portions of the hu-
man organism, etc. etc., had made but little progress, and it is to the
feneral ignorance in reference to these questions that we must, as I
hink, look for explanation of the fact that he should, with so much
eonfldence. in reference to so very grave a subject, have ventured to
suggest a formula so arbitrary in its character, and one whose hollow-
ness becomes now so clearly manifest. Mr. Carey's advantage over
him, both as to facts and logic, is certainly due in great part to the
progress that has since been made in all the sciences connected with
life ; but then, how admirably has he profited of them 1 How entirely
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directly or indirectly, bear upon his subject ! With what skill does he
ask of each and every of them all that it can be made to furnish,
whether of facts or arguments! With what elevated views, ana
what amplitude of means, does he go forward in his work ! Abovi
all, how thorough in his scientific caution 1 Accumulating induction*
and presenting for consideration facts the most undoubted and proba
bilities of the highest kind, he yet affirms nothing, contenting himsflf
with showing that his opponent had no good reason for affirming the
nature of the progression, nor the time of duplication, nor the gene-
ralization which takes the facts of an individual case and deduces
from them a law for every race, every climate, every civilization,
"every condition, moral or physical, permanent and transient,
healthy or unhealthy, of the various populations of the many coun-
tries of the world. Then, having reduced the theory to the level of a
mere hypothesis, he crushes it to atoms under the weight of facts."—
M. De i'ontenay in the ^^ Journal des Economistes." PariSf September ^ 1862.
" This book is so abundantly full of notices, facts, comparisons, cal-
culations, and arguments, that too much would be lost by laying a
part of it before the eye of the reader. The work is vast and severe
in its conception and aim, and is far removed from the common rux»
of the books on similar subjects."— ii Mondo LetUrariOy TuHn.
"In political economy, America is represented by one of the
strongest and most original writers of the age, Henry C. Carey, of
Philadelphia. *****♦#***♦
** His theory of Rents is regarded as a complete demonstration that
the i)opular views derived from Ricardo are erroneous ; and on the
subject of Protection, he is generally confessed to be the master-
thinker of his coxxntry,^^— Westminster Review.
" Both in America and on the Continent, Mr. Henry Carey has ac-
quired a great name as a political economist. * ♦ • • •
" His refutation of Malthus and Ricardo we consider most triumph-
ant."- JLondon Critic.
" Mr. Carey began his publication of Principles twenty years ago ;
he is certainly a mature and deliberate writer. More than this, he is
readable : his pages swarm with illustrative facts and with American
instances. •*•*•••••*••
" We are in great charity with books which, like Mr. Carey's, theo-
rize with excessive boldness, when the author, as does Mr. Carey,
possesses information and reasoning power." — London Athenceum.
" Those who would fight against the insatiate greed and unscrupu-
lous misrepresentations of the Manchester school, which we have fre-
quently exposed, without any of their organs having ever dared to
make reply, will find in this and Mr. Carey's other works an immense
store of arms and ammunition. #***#♦*•
** An author who has, among the political economists of Germany
and France, numerous readers, is worth attentive perusal in Eng-
land. "—Lomlon SUUesman,
*' Of all the varied answers to the old cry of human nature, * Who
will show us any good V none are more sententious than Mr. Carey's.
He says to Kings, Presidents, and People. * Keep the nation at work, '
and the greater the variety of employments the better.' Hfe is seek-
ing and elucidating the great radical laws of matter as regards man.
He is at once the a]>ostle and evangelist of temporal righteousness."
'■^National Intelligencer.
" A work which we believe to be the greatest ever written by an
American, and one which will in future ages be pointed •out as the
most successful effort of its time to form the great scientia scientiarum.*^
"Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreip;
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CONTENTS.— The Wide Extent of Slavery— Of Slavery In the
British Colonies— Of Slavery in the United States— Of Emanciuation
In the British Colonies— How Man passes from Poverty and Slavery
toward Wealth and Freedom— How Wealth tends to Increase— How
Labor acquires Value and Man becomes Free — How Man passes from
Wealth and Freedom toward Poverty and Slavery— How Slavery
grew, and How it is now maintained in the West Indies— How Slavery
frew, and is maintained in the United States— How Slavery grows in
Portugal and Turkey— How Slavery grows in India— How Slavery
frowB in Ireland and Scotland— How Slavery grows in England-
low can Slavery be extinguished?- How Freedom grows in Northern
Germany— How Freedom grows in Russia— How Freedom grows in
I)enmark— How Freedom grows in Spain and Belgium — Of the Duty
of the People of the United States— Of the Duty of the People of Eng-
land.
** As a philosophical writer. Mr. Carey is remarkable for the union
of comprehensive generalizations with a copious induction of facts.
His research of principles never leads him to the neglect of details .
nor is his accumulation of instances ever at the expense of universal
truth. He is, doubtless, intent on the investigation of lavs, as the
appropriate aim of science, but no passion for theory seduces him
Into the region of pure speculation. His mind is no less historical
than philosophical, and had he not chosen the severer branch in
which his studies nave borne such excellent fruit, he would have
attained an eminent rank among the historians from whom the litera-
ture of our country has received such signal illustration." — New York
Tribune,
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