clay-stone

The pipes of the Bobeen, and also of the Clalam Indians, occupying the neighboring Vancouver's Island, are carved with the utmost elaborateness and in the most singular and grotesque devices, from a soft blue clay-stone or slate.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

I forgot the salt marshes and red "Jersey mud;" but even the marshes there would look like flower-gardens after the clay-stone deserts of King William Land.

Schwatka's Search 1869

We then traversed fairly undulating and well-wooded ground, clay-stone coated with oxide of iron; we crossed another small stream flowing northwards, and we began the ascent leading to 'Government House, Tákwá.'

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

The fire was soon kindled, and the clay-stone calumet filled with

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

One of them seized it, and drew forth its contents -- which proved to be _a pipe-head of the red clay-stone_ -- the celebrated steatite.

The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

All conversation was kept between the two queens; but her Wichwezi majesty had a platter of clay-stone brought, which she ate with great relish, making a noise of satisfaction like

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Mr. Elder showed me, intercalated among the gneiss strata of a little ravine in the neighborhood of Isle Ornsay, a thin band of a bluish-colored indurated clay, scarcely distinguishable, in the hand specimen, from a weathered clay-stone, but unequivocally a stratum of the rock.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

This eminence, which I distinguished as Mount Stavely, consisted apparently of decomposed clay-stone or felspar, having a tendency to divide naturally into regular prisms.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Beyond the clay-stone range we entered on another open and grassy tract where trap-rock again appeared; and at four miles and a half we descended into a grassy ravine in which we found another river flowing northward; this being apparently the second river crossed in my ride to Mount

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

The soil here was found to be quite like to what had elsewhere been found, and the rocks and stones consisted of granite, moor-stone, and brown talcous clay-stone.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784