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INFLAMMABLES. 73. Turia, 



INFLAMMABLES. 



73. TURFA. Generally of a dull colour, and 

 more or Jefs fibrous texture : when burnt emit- 

 ting fumes which are exceedingly offenfive to 

 the fine]] and the eyes : confiding of the fibrous 

 roots and other parts of vegetables mote or Icfs 

 intermixed, and combined with bitumen. 



cesspitoia. Whitifli, light, eafily and fpeedily burning into afhes with 

 flame and a fmall degree of fumes. 

 Turf. Kirwan mineral, 2. />. 62. 

 Turf, SchmeiJJer tnheral. i. p, 296. 



1. Confining principally of heath. 



2. Confining chiefly of moffes and grafie?. 



Found commonly on moors and heaths, covering the furfacc of 

 the ground, or covered with a light ftratum of the foil only, 

 and is generally in deeper layers than others of its kind : it 

 is compofed of the radicles of heath and moffes which have 

 undergone very little alteration, and is pale, hoary, or when 

 contaminated wit^ iron ochraceous : it is fo light that a piece 

 14 inches long, 6 broad, and ^ thick, will weigh only from 

 13 to 15 ounces: its vapour is not fo difagreeable to the nofe 

 and eyes as many others, but it confame^ very quick, gives 

 but little heat, and leaves a large quantity of a{hes. 



ftiliata. Of a texture approaching to the lamellar. 



Cronft. miner, fe^t 291, 5. 2. i . 2. 



Found in bogs and fpongy places, colleded into fmall hillocks, 

 and confiils of numerous unequal layers which are feparable 

 like the leaves of a book : the vegetables of which it is com- 

 pofed are in a rather more decayed ftate than thofe of the lail. 



maritima* Burning flowly, and emitting mod oifenfive fumes to the 



nofe and eyes. 

 Darry. Wiill.Jyji» miner, i, p. 20, «. 6. b. 

 Found in low maritane fituations and in the neighbourhood of 



fait fprings, rather ponderous, of a darkit'h colour, and takes 



a longer time in confuming than T. csefpitofa, and gives out 



much more heat. 



