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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLE  tGr . (3&'Xos, " a clod of

earth "), a clay-like substance of red, brown or yellow colour, consisting essentially of hydrous aluminium silicate, with more or less iron . Most bole differs from ordinary clay in not being plastic, but in dropping to pieces when placed in
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water, thus behaving rather like fuller's-earth . Bole was formerly in
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great repute medicinally, the most famous kind being the Lemnian Earth ('
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yii Ai vca), from the Isle of Lemnos in the Greek
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Archipelago . The earth was dug with much ceremony only once a
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year, and having been mixed with goats'
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blood was made into little cakes or balls, which were stamped by the priests, whence they became known as Terra sigillata (" sealed earth ") . Large quantities of bole occur as red partings between the successive
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lava flows of the
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Tertiary volcanic series in the north of Ireland and the west of Scotland . Here it seems to have resulted from the decomposition of the
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basalt and kindred rocks by meteoric agencies, during periods of volcanic repose . In Antrim the bole is associated with lithomarge,
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bauxite and pisolitic iron-ore . Bole occurs in like manner between the great sheets of the Deccan traps in India; and a similar substance is also found interbedded with some of the doleritic lavas of Etna . In the sense of stem or trunk of a tree, " bole " is from the 0 .
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Norwegian bolr, cf . Ger .

Bohle,

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plank . It is probably connected with the large number of words, such as "
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boll, " " ball," " bowl," &c., which stand for a round
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object .

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