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USED IN THE DESCRIPTION OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

Where the Foreign synonyme is almost the same as the English word, it is omitted.

Adobe, Sp. —Sun-dried bricks, introduced into Spain by its Africanconquerors, and found at the present time, under the same name,in Mexico and other parts of the New World. The ancienttemples of Peru were built of bricks sun-dried and hardened bypressure. Pietro della Yalle compares the sun-dried bricks ofBabylon with the Spanish tappia ,* or mud walls, which wereknown in the time of Pliny , who thus mentions their generaladoption.! In warm, dry climates, these bricks, made by simplecompression, are very durable. The Egyptian brick was sun-dried. Straw, or some fibrous substance, was generally workedup with the clay to assist the cohesion, as we learn from thecomplaint of the Israelites in the fifth chapter of Exodus; and

* Tappies, or Tapia (Arabo-Spanish),“mud wall,”—the case of boards or wat-tles which served to support the earthin making the wall. The word is Arabic i —Cob; whence the Spanish , Adobe— sun-burnt bricks. The use of thesewooden cases was introduced by the[Moors .—See “Quarterly Review” Api'M,

1837, “Cob-Walls,” by Richard Ford, Esq.

f Quid? non in Africa Hispaniaque exterra parietes, quos appellant Formaccos,quoniam in forma circumdatis utrinqueduabus tabulis interjiciuntur verius, quamconstruuntur, aevis durant, incorrupti imbri-bus, ventis, ignibus, omnique cemento fir-miores ?— Plin. 9 lib. xxxv., chap. xiv.