chlorite-enamelled

Updated: July 5, 2026

Round the furnaces are strewed carbonate of lime, stained black with iron, like that of Sharma; and a quantity of the chlorite-enamelled serpentine still used in the Brazil as a flux. Quartz was absent, and we were at a loss to divine what stone had been worked.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2