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6 Say whether the following statements are true or false.

1 Sperm oil was clear, with a strong odor, light in weight and
burned with a little smoke.
2 So much oil flowed into the stream that settlers named it Oil
Creek.
3 William A. Smith began rising money to collect the oil from the
Titusville spring.
4 The Seneca Oil Company, in New Heaven, Connecticut was
formed only by Bissell.
5 One of the problems the company faced was how best to produce
the oil from the land.
6 Seneca Oil’s purpose was to produce small amounts of oil.

7 Smith, a blacksmith and an experienced brine-well driller, was
known to most everyone as Uncle Billy.
8 Bissell’s well was the first well in the United States drilled for the
sole purpose of finding and producing oil.
9 Colonel Smith’s well in Titusville marked the beginning of the
petroleum era in the United States.
10 Higgins obtained land on top of the dome and, with several
financial partners, drilled eight unsuccessful wells.

7 Fill in the gaps.
a) gallon d) drilling g) honorary colonel
b) tap e) oil h) Edwin L. Drake
c) rock f) Titusville i) saltwater

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