But as ordinary clay is hardly at all vitrescible, they have not been able to succeed in their attempt; but, instead of that, the stones, by thegrt-at heat applied to them, have been scorched in the manner they row ap - pear, and the clay between themhas been burnt to afhes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense] Reference
Buffon at length arrived at his succession of the Epochs, or Seven Ages of Nature, namely: (1) the Age of fluidity, or incandescence, when the earth and planets assumed their shape; (2) the Age of cooling, or consolidation, when the rocky interior of the earth and the great vitrescible masses at its surface were formed; (3) the Age when the waters covered the face of the earth; (4) the Age when the waters retreated and volcanoes became active; (5) the Age when the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and other giants roamed through the northern hemisphere; (6) the Age of the division of the land into the vast areas now styled the Old and the New Worlds; and (7) the Age when Man appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
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