All have been distanc’d; oil has the pole.
VIEW IN OIL CITY, PA., AFTER THE FLOOD, MARCH 17, 1865.
III.
NEARING THE DAWN.
Salt-Water Helping Solve the Problem—Kier’s Important Experiments—Remarkable Shaft at Tarentum—West Virginia and Ohio to the Front—The Lantern Fiend—What an Old Map Showed—Kentucky Plays Trumps—The Father of Flowing Wells—Sundry Experiences and Observations at Various Points.
“Just now the golden-sandaled dawn.”—Sappho.
“The first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into the full, clear light.”—Newton.
“Let there be light.”—Genesis i: 3.
“Come into the bright light beyond.”—Wilson Barrett.