These are mining villages we are passing through, and on the horizon are some of those pyramidal slag-heapsthe Fosseswhich have seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Grassier is a great slag heap, and lies only about 300 yards south of the central railway station of Lens, and overlooks it.

The whole country had been gutted, and vast piles of refuse and mountains of slag suggested the mighty chambers which the labour of man had burrowed beneath.

[products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag.

recrement^, slag; scum, froth.

The extent of their excavations, and the large existing masses of slag, also indicate the activity of their operations for a long period of time.

True, in Cornwall there would be no slag-cliffs of the Falkenley beneath his feet, as black and blasted at this day as when yon orchard meadow was the mouth of hell, and the south-west wind dashed the great flame against the cinder cliff behind, and forged it into walls of time-defying glass.

A black hill in the distance, the highest point around, turned out to be a slag pile.

The top of a silo, last sign of a buried barn, waited a few feet above a spreading shoulder of slag.

For fifty kilometres the earth under our wheels was made up of a kind of glistening red slag covered with pebbles and stones.

The train rumbled on through a landscape of fiery furnaces, and burning slag-heaps, and foul canals reflecting great smoking chimneys, all steeped in the mild sunshine.

The ships were being indiscriminately reduced to molten slag.

Huge piles of smoking slag that had gleamed dully behind the mills now were veined with vivid red, looking like miniature volcanoes streaked with lava.

Its volcanic slag fell again into the chimneys of the crater or rolled down the mountain slopes, falling into the waves.

Attempts in this direction have been made by Mr. T.R. Crampton, by Messrs. Whelpley and Storer, and by Mr. G.K. Stephenson; but a difficulty has presented itself which seems at present to be insuperable, that the slag fluxes the walls of the furnace, and at that high temperature destroys them.

These latter are not interfered with, and will not require cleaning unless any bricks in the furnace have been melted, when a bed of slag will be found on them.

Ginn & Co. (PWH); 24Sep69; R469320. GINZBERG, ELI. Grass on the slag heaps; the story of the Welsh miners.

MCINTYRE, JOHN T. Slag.

MOLLOY, JOSEPH E. Slag.

Ginn & Co. (PWH); 24Sep69; R469320. GINZBERG, ELI. Grass on the slag heaps; the story of the Welsh miners.

As it lay on the table before him, he realized that it was nothing but a common aerolite, with the appearance of black slag.

The surrounding heaps of slag have been rich in revelations.

"'Deed and truth, Sur, they is cinder-heaps and slag from the iron-works, Sur; and yon is Merthyr-Tydvil, sure.

Convulsions came; and, where the field Long slept in pastoral green, A goblin-mountain was upheaved (Sure the scared sense was all deceived), Marl-glen and slag-ravine.

When the converter is filled, it is borne by the crane into a convenient position for blowing, and if the basic method is followed for removing the slag, the converted metal is cast into ingot moulds, which are manipulated by a small ingot crane of the ordinary pattern.