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Natural Hiftory 
JAMAICA. 
BOOK VII. PAR T IL 
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», Stones\Earths, Sands, Minerals, 6c. 
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LOSS 4 fue 4 “Honey Comb. Rock. : : 
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Ty HE preateft part, of all the Rocks I have feen in this Ifand, 
A are of this Stone, many Hills ate moftly made up of it. Ir is 
Whitifh and ‘‘fott like Alabafter;"thé* Grain of it is very fine, fo that 
it feems to be made of Clay, and has no appearing Pores in it, but 
is clofeandevers The natural Surface of it has many Holes init, like 
thofe of a Honey-Comb, whence its Namé, which are probably the 
Holes or Cavities wherein lay the,Pholas defcrib’d above p. 263. Tab. 
241. Fig. 22. 23. when thefé Rocks were under the Sea- Water. 
IL. Lapides rotundi pellucidi thinores Croflallini. - 
: Pebbles. 
“There are ‘many ‘white tratfparéht’ Pebbles’ of ‘feveral Magnitudesy 
to be found here, thrown up on the Sea Shore among other Kinds 
of Stones, in which I find no Difference from thofe of Europe, and 
which I believe come from Pieces of Cryftal Ground in that Form, 
by ‘being tumbled and rubb’d agaiaft one another by the Sea-Water, 
as I have feen Pieces of ordinary Glafs by the River Thames. 
Qqqq III. 
