Bulletin . £ i (A) Brick works at (B) Clay pit at Brodnax. FLOOD PLAIN CLAYS. 11 There is not much difference between the two clays as the followingfew tests indicate. Lab. No. 204-7.—A brown, sandy, plastic clay of red-burning character,with per cent air shrinkage and low fire shrinkage. It has about 15per cent absorption at cones 010 and 05. Lab. No. 2043.—This has per cent air shrinkage, very low fireshrinkage, and 13 per cent absorption. LUNENBURG COUNTY. Meherrin.—Stream clay is known to occur about 1 mile southwest ofMeherrin, on the Eichmond and Danville division of th
Bulletin . £ i (A) Brick works at (B) Clay pit at Brodnax. FLOOD PLAIN CLAYS. 11 There is not much difference between the two clays as the followingfew tests indicate. Lab. No. 204-7.—A brown, sandy, plastic clay of red-burning character,with per cent air shrinkage and low fire shrinkage. It has about 15per cent absorption at cones 010 and 05. Lab. No. 2043.—This has per cent air shrinkage, very low fireshrinkage, and 13 per cent absorption. LUNENBURG COUNTY. Meherrin.—Stream clay is known to occur about 1 mile southwest ofMeherrin, on the Eichmond and Danville division of the Southern is referred to as white, but is of a light gray color, and this fact has ledsome to think it a fire clay. Indeed it was this rumor which attracted ourattention to it. The material (Lab. No. 2052) is a smooth, plastic clay,which shows per cent air shrinkage, after being mixed up with 25per cent water. The clay burns red, and has an excellent ring at Cone Cone 010 the fire shrinkage and absorption were
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