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Excerpt from A Treatise on Earthy and Other Minerals and Mining Clays, how derived and formed - Decomposition of Basalt, of Rocks in Iceland - Brick Clays of the Drift - Analyses - Clays of the Tertiary Strata, Bovey Tracey - China Stone and China Clay of Cornwall and Devon - Comparison With other China Clays Kimmeridge Clay - Permian Marls and Clays - Clays of the Coal measures - Analyses - Manufactures of, in North of England, North Wales, Shropshire - Colouring of Clays and their Products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.