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Having melted it, he poured it into the mould, where it assumed a dull, half-solid appearance, as if it were a liquid only half frozen or, if you prefer it, a solid in a half molten state. "This is only fit to mix with copper and make brass," said the agent, throwing down the mould. "We test the tin ore twice once to find out the quantity of metal it contains, and again to ascertain its quality.
But the butter came quickly that morning, and then he did have another astonishment, for he saw a great mass of something half-solid tumbled out where he had seen a liquid poured in nor that alone, for the liquid came out again too!
Earth is converted into pottery when the watery part is suddenly drawn away; or if moisture remains, the earth, when fused by fire, becomes, on cooling, a stone of a black colour. When the earth is finer and of a briny nature then two half-solid bodies are formed by separating the water, soda and salt. The strong compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water, but only by fire.
One who is properly dressed, finds the climate much more agreeable than the amphibious, half-fluid, half-solid, sloppy, gravelike chill of the East. The snows are light a kind of snow-dew, that makes about an inch, or sometimes three, in a night. Real snowstorms are rare; there was none the winter I spent there. A little more snow, to make better sleighing, would have been an improvement.
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