Buffon's Natural History, Volume 01 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &cBuffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
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Buffon's Natural History, Volume 01 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
Natural history
1. A free reddish earth, mixed with
much mud, a very small quantity of
vitrifiable sand, and somewhat more of
calcinable sand 13 0
2. A free earth mixed with gravel,
and a little more vitrifiable sand 2 6
3. Mud mixed with vitrifiable sand
in a great quantity, and which made
but very little effervescence with
aquafortis 3 0
4. Hard marl, which made a very
great effervescence with aquafortis 2 0
5. Pretty hard marl stone 4 0
6. Marl in powder, mixed with vitrifiable
sand 5 0
7. Very fine vitrified sand 1 6
8. Marl very like earth mixed with
a very little vitrifiable sand 3 6
9. Hard marl, in which was real flint 3 6
10. Gravel, or powdered marl 1 0
11. Eglantine, a stone of the grain
and hardness of marble, and sonorous 1 6
12. Marly gravel 1 6
13. Marl in hard stone, whose grain
was very fine 1 6
14. Marl in stone, whose grain was
not so fine 1 6
15. More grained and thicker marl 2 6
16. Very fine vitrifiable sand, mixed
with fossil sea-shells, which had no
adherence with the sand, and whose
colours were perfect 1 6
17. Very small gravel, or fine marl
powder 2 0
18. Marl in hard stone 3 6
19. Very coarse powdered marl 1 6
20. Hard and calcinable stone, like
marble 1 0
21. Grey vitrifiable sand mixed with
fossil shells, particularly oysters and
muscles which have no adherence
with the sand, and which were not
petrified 3 0
22. White vitrifiable sand mixed with
similar shells 2 0
23. Sand streaked red and white,
vitrifiable and mixed with the like
shells 1 0
24. Larger sand, but still vitrifiable
and mixed with the like shells 1 0
25. Fine and vitrifiable grey sand
mixed with the like shells 8 6
26. Very fine fat sand, with only a
few shells 3 0
27. Brown free stone 3 0
28. Vitrifiable sand, streaked red and
white 4 0
29. White vitrifiable sand 3 6
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