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Ought else therewith besprinckt, as earth or wood 

 becommeth marble streight : a thing most strange. 



And Cardane. Georgius Agricola affirmeth, that in 

 the territorie of Elbogan, about the town which is named 

 of Falcons, that the whole bodies of Pine trees are con- 

 verted into stone, and which is more wonderfull, that 

 they containe, within certaine rifts, the stone called 

 Pyrites, or the Flint. And Domitius Brusonius re- 

 porteth, that in the river of Silar (running by the foote 

 of that mountain which standeth in the field of the citie 

 in old time called Ursence, but now Contursia) leaves 

 and boughs of trees change into stones, & that, not upon 

 other mens credite, but upon his own experience, being 

 borne & brought up in that country : which thing Plinie 

 also avoucheth, saying, that the said stones doe shew the 

 number of their yeeres, by the number of their Barks, 

 or stony husks. So (if we may give credite to authors) 

 drops of the Gothes fountain being dispersed abroad, 

 become stones. And in Hungary, the water of Cepusius 

 being poured into pitchers, is converted to stone. And 

 Plinie reporteth, that wood being cast into the river of 

 the Cicones, and into the Veline lake in the field of Pice, 

 is enclosed in a barke of stone growing over it. 

 Rivers of Is- The second is extremely cold. As for the second 

 fountaine, here is none to any mens knowledge so ex- 

 tremely cold : In deed there be very many that bee 

 indifferently coole, insomuch that (our common rivers 

 in the Sommer time being luke-warme) wee take delight 

 to fetch water from those coole springs. It may be that 

 there are some farre colder in other countries : for 

 Cardane maketh mention of a river (streaming from the 

 top of an hill in the field of Corinth) colder then snow : 

 and within a mile of Culma, the river called Insana 

 seeming to be very hote is most extremely cold, &c. 



The third is sweeter than honie. Neither is this 

 altogether true. For there is not any fountaine with us, 

 which may in the least respect be compared with the 

 sweetnesse of honie. And therfore Saxo wrote more 



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 season luke 



