bituminous

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And there are stranger things than these,—fragments of spiced and bituminized humanity to be shown to visitors who are not nervous, nor given to midnight terrors.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various

Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert