sentences:  The earliest mention of petroleum in the Americas occurs in Sir Walter Raleigh's account of the Trinidad Pitch Lake in 1595; while thirty-seven years later, the account of a visit of a Franciscan, Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, to the oil springs of New York was published in Gabriel Sagard's "Histoire du Canada".A Finnish born Swede, scientist and student of Carl Linnaeus, Peter Kalm, in his work "Travels into North America" published first in 1753 showed on a map the oil springs of Pennsylvania.In 1710 or 1711 (sources vary) the Russian-born Swiss physician and Greek teacher Eirini d'Eyrinys (also spelled as Eirini d'Eirinis) discovered asphaltum at Val-de-Travers, (Neuchâtel).