Blend, is a mineral called also false galena, blinde, &c. See Blinde.

Black-Land, in agriculture, a term by which the husbandmen denote a particular sort of clayey soil, which, however, they know more by its other properties than by its colour, which is rarely anything like a true black, and often but a pale grey. This, however pale when dry, always blackens by means of rains, and when ploughed up at these seasons it sticks to the ploughshares, and the more it is wrought the muddier and duller coloured it appears. This sort of soil always contains a large quantity of sand, and usually a great number of small white stones.