There is no potable water on it, save a kind of dew produced by one sole tree standing upon the most lofty point of the whole island; and from which it falls drop by drop into an artificial trough.
Are not other regions watered by great rivers, such as the Don, the Ganges, the Danube, whose waters drive back those of the sea with such force that fresh, potable water is still found forty miles from their mouths?
The nearest spring of potable water available for our excavation camp at Sikyatki was Kanelba, or Sheep spring, one of the best sources of water supply in Tusayan.
It is sufficiently convenient to the pueblos, has an abundant supply of potable water at all seasons, and cultivable fields in the neighborhood.
At the time of my visit there was but scanty water in the canyon and that not potable except for stock.
Thoroughly wash the container in potable water and soap, or in a disinfectant solution.
Place the containers in boiling soapy water for 15 minutes; then rinse with potable water.
These men are not unlike to those gnats which love to settle on the dregs of wine, or on vinegar, but shun and fly away from potable and pleasant wine.
Of the hardening salts present in potable water, carbonate of lime is the one most generally met with, and to obtain a numerical expression for this quality of hardness a sample of water containing 1 lb.
Some of the mineral substances which occur in solution in potable waters communicate to the latter the quality of hardness.
Then we tried to make a potable coffee by making an aqueous extract of raw coffee, evaporating to dryness and roasting the residue.
These experiments were made to ascertain whether a potable coffee could not be offered to the public at as low a price as the raw or roasted now is.
Percy Frankland, a prolonged research on behalf of the Royal Society as to the conditions of their occurrence in potable water.
That bacteria are not an inevitable element in potable water is proved by their absence from that of deep springs.
He who possesses sal generalis may easily produce philosophical gold, and draw potable gold from the three kingdoms of nature.
Observations on fixed and volatile Salts, potable Gold and Silver, Spiritus Mundi, &c.
It is potable the April after it is made, is best that year, and after ten years begins to have a pitchy taste, resembling it to Malaga.
Apparatus for the economic production of a potable water from sea-water is of vital importance in the equipment of ships.
Following this assumption, the philosopher might have insisted that in the last extremity the melting snow caps would be utilized by the supposed intelligences to furnish water for potable and irrigating purposes.
This demand for more water is not, however, confined to regions of sterility, the reaching out of cities for supplies of water for potablepurposes and for the wasteful disposal of sewage was inevitable.
Though for the moment cast into despair, he did not lose hope, but would the next day recommence his voyages of discovery in search of potable gold.
Disappointed, but not discouraged, Voisenon descended from the dizzy height, reflecting upon the sad distress to which a man might be reduced, although possessing the secret of potable gold.
Now did he, or did he not, believe in potable gold?
