Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part II/III
III.OIL WELLS.
101.Not far from the city of Ardeiicca there are wells, which produce three different kinds of things. For both bitumen and salt and oil are drawn from them in this way. They draw by the help of a swing beam, to which is fastened a bucket; they pour what they have drawn from the well into a large vessel; from which it is again removed to another receptacle, and so is changed into a threefold form. Both the asphalte and the salt grow hard; but they collect the oil into a vessel; now it is black and exhales an unpleasant smell.