Volltext Seite (XML)
37 6 BITUMINOUS FAMILY. It is not very brittle. It is pretty easily frangible. It is light. Chemical Characters. It burns with a weak blue-coloured flame, and emits a smell like that of burning bituminous wood. Constituent Parts. 200 Grains of the Bovey brown coal, by distillation, yielded, Grains. 1. Water, which soon came over acid, and afterwards turbid, by the mixture of some bitumen, ... - 60 2. Thick brown oily bitumen, 21 3. Charcoal, ..... 90 4. Mixed gas, consisting of hydrogen, car bonated hydrogen, and carbonic acid, 29 200 Hatchett, I’hil. Trans. 1804. Geognostic Situation. It occurs in alluvial land, and in floetz-trap rocks. Geographic Situation. It is found at Bovey near Exeter; in the Leitmeritzcr, Saatzer, and Ellbogner circles in Bohemia; in the coun ties of Mansfeldt, Thuringia, Magdeburg, and the circles of Saal and Leipsic, in Lower Saxony; in Hessia, in the famous hill called the Meissner; at Kaltennordheim> in the district of Eisenach ; at Stockhausen and Iloen in Westerward ; Island of Bornholm in Denmark ; in the Faroe Islands; Greenland. , Use.