Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 31 | An View more quotes about advantage">advantage of the double-pipe system is that only a single tap well need be drilled. |
| 15 | 32 | Both systems require pumping, of course. |
| 15 | 33 | But much of the salt at Klima comes from its famous brine pits. |
| 15 | 34 | These pits are of two kinds, "open" and "closed". |
| 15 | 35 | Men, in the closed pits, actually descend and, wading, or on rafts, negotiate the sludge itself, filling their vessels and later, eventually, pouring their contents into the lift sacks, on hooks, worked by windlasses from the surface. |
| 15 | 36 | The "harvesting" vessel, not the retaining vessel, used is rather like a perforated cone with a handle, to which is attached a rope. |
| 15 | 37 | It is dragged through the sludge and lifted, the free water running from the vessel, leaving within the sludge of salt, thence to be poured into the retaining vessels, huge, wooden tubs. |
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An advantage of the double-pipe system is that only a single tap well need be drilled.
Both systems require pumping, of course.
But much of the salt at Klima comes from its famous brine pits.
These pits are of two kinds, "open" and "closed".
Men, in the closed pits, actually descend and, wading, or on rafts, negotiate the sludge itself, filling their vessels and later, eventually, pouring their contents into the lift sacks, on hooks, worked by windlasses from the surface.
The "harvesting" vessel, not the retaining vessel, used is rather like a perforated cone with a handle, to which is attached a rope.
It is dragged through the sludge and lifted, the free water running from the vessel, leaving within the sludge of salt, thence to be poured into the retaining vessels, huge, wooden tubs.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)