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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesacids adheres firmly alba antients Argilla ash colour ashen astringent bole Bolus brown colour Bruckm burns Burnt Cent chalk Chrysocolla clay coarse colour the hands compact texture deep Derbyshire destitute of brightness diffusible in water earth elegant Epist exhibits faid fame fays fire it acquires fire with steel Flintshire Foss fossils friabilis friable fullers earth genus glossy granite grey grittiness heavy and hard Hill's Hist Imperat Itin Kentm kind Lapis Lemnia M E M marble Marga Marmor masses melts freely melts readily moderately hard moderately heavy mouth Ochra ochre opake Ophites Oryctogr pale pillars polish porphyry pure quantities quarries readily diffusible red colour reddish regular texture rubra Saxum arenarium Sect Silesia slate smooth surface soft solid texture spar species spots Steatites stone strata stratum strike fire substance Terra Sigillata thick set tongue Tophus unctuous variegated variegatum veins white colour whitish Woodw Woodward yellow yellowish Popular passagesPage 67 - ... all reddish, but some lighter coloured than others, under which there is a thin stratum of red sandstone, which they break through ; and then for the depth of about seven or eight yards more, you have sand again, and after that come to fullers... Page 124 - Besides, this and all like sorts of stone that are composed of granules, will cut and rive in any direction: as well in a perpendicular, or in a diagonal, as horizontally and parallel to the site of the strata. Page 254 - Stone to lie upon another; not jointing with flat Surfaces, for when you force one off the other, one of them is always Concave in the middle, the other Convex. Page 252 - ... feet deep ; and above that a stratum of upright pillars. Above these pillars lies another stratum of black stone 20 feet high ; and above this is again another stratum of upright pillars rising in some places to the top of the cliffs, in others not so high, and in others again above it, where they are called the Chimneys. Page 67 - ... earth ; the upper layer of which, being about a foot deep, they call the cledge; and this is by the diggers thrown by as useless, by reason of its too great mixture with the neighbouring sand, which covers, and has insinuated itself among... Page 68 - Crop ; betwixc which and the Cledge above mentioned, is a thin Layer of Matter not an Inch in Depth, in Tafte, Colour, and Confiftency, not unlike to Terra Japonica. The lower half of the Layers of Fullers- Earth, they call the Wall- Earth ; this is untinged with that red above-mentioned, and feems to be the more pure and fitter for Fulling ; and underneath all is a Stratum of white rough Stone, of about two Foot thick, which, if they dig through, as they very feldom do, they find Sand... Page 39 - ... us with the fineft and beft ingredients. On this principle it is evident, that no fpecies of... Page 233 - Some persons that are less skilful in these matters fancy these scapi that occur in most of the larger gothic buildings of England are artificial, and will have it that they are a kind of fusil marble cast in cylindric moulds. Page 276 - I went about a mile to the fouth-eaft, to the quarries of gra. nite ; for the country to the eaft, the bed of the river, and the iflands, are all red granite. The quarries are not worked in deep : but the ftone is hewn out of the fides of the low hills. I obferved fome columns and an obelifk marked out in the quarries, and fhaped on two fides : they feemed to have worked in round the ftones with a narrow tool, and when the ftones were almoft feparated, they probably forced them out with large wedges.... Page 68 - Fulling ; and underneathall is a Stratum of white rough Stone, of about two Foot thick, which, if they dig through, as they very feldom do, they find Sand again, and then is an End of their Works. One Thing is obfervable in the Site of this Earth, which is, that it... References from web pagesMELVIN E. JAHN COLLECTION GESELLIGKEIT UND METHODE. NATURGESCHICHTLICHES SAMMELN IM 18 ... Bibliographic information
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