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The name of a hill in London, used attrib. in Highgate resin, a mineral resin similar to copal found in Highgate Hill. Also called copalin(e), copalite, fossil copal.
1813T. Thomson in Ann. Philos. II. 9 The colour of Highgate resin is of a dirty yellowish light brown. 1815A. Aikin Man. Min. (ed. 2) 64 Fossil Copal. Highgate Resin. Colour light yellowish dirty brown. 1839Phil. Mag. XIV. 91 The Highgate resin has much resemblance to copal. 1898E. S. Dana Textbk. Min. (rev. ed.) iv. 543 Copalite, or Highgate resin, is from the London blue clay. 1968Encycl. Brit. VI. 462/2 Copalite.., also termed ‘fossil resin’ and ‘Highgate resin’, a naturally occurring organic substance found as irregular pieces of pale-yellow colour in the London clay at Highgate hill. |