"The casualties of a twentieth century war between two world-powers are such as to make a worker in an iron-foundry turn green with envy."
"Beijing took aim at 96 companies with 31.2 million metric tons in iron-foundry capacity, as well as 58 companies with 27.9 million tons of steelmaking capacity."
"The most curious circumstance attending it is, that the stones are all firmly connected together by a kind of vitrified matter, like lava, or like the stay or scoriæ of an iron-foundry, and the stones themselves, in many places, have been softened and vitrified."