CLAY

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 5

oa kind of earth, which when wet con of | has a tenacious a character. 1592, | All the clays consist m ay S aluminium time | compounds, and they all have the sticky ctoria | nature when wet, but do not all retain their cohesive power when dried, some OF, a/ rather falling to powder, cil of| [s. 101]