Wakefield Moor.

“Potters Pale Yellow Clay of Wakefield Moor,” is mentioned in a list of clays, by Houghton, in 1693. As the list contains valuable particulars I give it entire. In the same work is a vast deal of curious information on tobacco-pipe clay and the making of pipes, brick and tile-making, etc. The list is as follows:

“A TABLE OF CLAYS.

Pure, that is, such as is soft like butter to the teeth, and has little or no greetiness in it.

Greasy, to be reckoned amongst the medicinal earth, or terræ sigillatæ.

1. Fullers earth.
yellowish At Brickhill in Northamptonshire.
At ... under the Yorkshire woolds.
brown about Halifax.
white in Derbyshire lead mines.
2. Boli In Cleveland.
At Linton upon Wharfe.
3. Pale yellow, in the marlepit at Ripley.
4. Cow shot clay, or the soap scale lying in coal mines.
5. A dark blue clay or marl at Tolthrop. Harsh and dusty when dry.
6. Creta properly so called, or the milk-white clay of the isle of Wight.
7. The potter’s pale yellow clay of Wakefield moor.
8. The blue clay of Bullinbrooke pottery in Lincolnshire.
9. A blue clay in Bugthorp beck, in which the astroites are found.
10. Yellow clay in the seams of the red sand rock at Bilbro.
11. Fine red clay in sand rock, at Bilbro.
at Rippon.
12. A soft chalky blue clay} at Buttercrain.
13. A soft chalky red clay do. do.
Stony when dry.
14. A red stone clay In the banks of Whitcar beck, near Leppington: and at Housam in the Milscar.
15. A blue stone clay do. do. do. do.
16. Clunch, a white stone clay in Cambridgeshire.
Mixt with round sand or pebble.
17. The yellow loam of Skipwith moor, Yorkshire.
18. A red sandy clay in the right hand bank of the road beyond Collingham, near the lime kilns going to ——
19. A red sandy clay in the red sand rock near Rippon.
With flat or thin sand, guttering with Mica.
20. Crouch white clay Derbyshire, of which the glass pots are made at Nottingham.
21. Grey or bluish tobacco-pipe clay at Halifax.
22. A red clay in the red sand rock at Rotherham.”