Barbados earth
Britishnoun
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But there is another chalk known as Barbados earth; it is silicious, and is ultimately composed of minute and beautiful skeletons such as those which, enormously magnified, you now see.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
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