agate vessels or tin pails are to be preferred.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
All this rich land was thickly strewed with small fragments of fossil wood, in silex, agate, and chalcedony.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
The cathedral of the Assumption is perhaps the most noteworthy, teeming as it does with historic interest, and being filled with tombs and pictures from its dark agate floor to the vast cupola.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou