Nature has reduced the once prosperous communal farm into a swampy, puddled mush. The walls were of puddled mud and palm oil. Construction with bricks avoids the delays while each course of puddled mud dries. In Iran, puddled mud walls are called "chine" construction. The iron was then puddled, becoming granular and malleable. They puddled the left over pig-iron, then shingled and rolled it. The entire puddled iron armature designed by Gustave Eiffel was replaced. This was the last of the iron smelted and puddled at the works. The Eiffel Tower in Paris used puddled iron from Phoenixville. The hearth is where the iron is charged, melted and puddled. The core of the dam was made of puddled clay mixed with sand. They puddled the leftover pig-iron and rolled merchant bars.