Excerpt from Petroleum: Its Development and Uses The enormous and increasing consumption of petroleum of various qualities in this country has created a special interest in this useful natural product, and the author has met with frequent inquiries from users of oil outside the trade as to its origin, manner of production, and mode of preparation. The following pages have been written with a view to giving some general information on the subject. It has not been attempted to compile a text-book, but simply to collect a few facts about petroleum which mav prove of interest to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.