In the third place, which is the mixed sense, when one speaks of terra as soilthat in which seeds are sown and developed; as for example, clay soil or rocky soil or others.

The Assyrians also used fine clay tablets, baked in the firein fact, a kind of terra cottafor the purpose of records, covering these tablets with beautifully executed inscriptions, made with a pointed instrument while the clay was soft, and rendered permanent by burning.

Dr. Hunter, in his edition of the Terra of Evelyn, has given a more curious print of it, much resembling a sheep.