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An Extract of all such Matters concerning Fossil Shells and 

 Plants, as are mentioned in the Remarks o/John Strange, 

 Esq. read to the Society of Antiquaries, 28 Jan. 1779, and 

 printed in the " Archteologia." Vol. vi. pp. 35 to 38. 

 After describing four different ViewSy which are engraven, of 

 the promontory (of whitish Limestone) called Wormshead, run- 

 ning out VV from the village of Rosilly, in Glamorganshire, Mr. 

 Strange thus proceeds, (in p. 36,) viz. " Wormshead point also 

 merits the attention of naturalists, for the extraneous and marine 

 fossil bodies it contains, especially Entrochi, which remaining 

 often prominent above the surface of the Limestone, on account 

 of their resisting better the action of the air, make a singular ap- 

 pearance, and have been supposed to be the hardened excre- 

 ment of sea Gulls." 



"Thephytolypolithi, or fossil impressionsof plants, in the Strata 

 about the coal-mines, are very curious. They are chiefly Filices ; 

 not of our common indigenous species, but exotics ; and I re- 

 marked several that seemed to correspond exactly with some 

 of the American Filices figured by Plumier in his celebrated 

 Herbal. 



(p. 37.) '' I have since seen much the same impressions in 

 the Strataofthe coal-mines of St. Chaumont, in the province of 

 Lionoise, in France: the origin of which, has been so very ably dis- 

 cussed by the late learned naturalist Monsieur deJussieu (Mem. c?e 

 I' Acad. 17 1 8.) I also observed similar imjiressions in the coal Strata 

 near Rive de Giez, in the same neighbourhood. Other impres- 

 sions, nearly of the same kind, are likewise observable in the iron- 

 stone of Cfamorganshire : particularly between Breton Ferry and 

 Neath : and which appeared to me more curious than any I had 

 ever seen before, or, indeed, since. A recent author, Mr. Beuth 

 (Juliae est montem &c. 1776, Svo.) in his account of some ex- 

 traneous fossil bodies of Lower Germany, has given the descrip- 

 tions and figures of two curious phytolypolithi, greatly resembling 

 some of those, which I remember to have particularly remarked 

 in the said Ironstone. Mr. Beuth may well style these bodies, 

 rarisiimi part7is. 



"The hilly promontory a few miles to the west of Cardiff, as 

 well as the blue limestone of the lower country, between Cardiff 

 and Ncnrport, also affords fossil marine bodies in plenty, especi- 

 ally the Gryphites oyster, which is not only found abundantly in 

 the lower part of Monmouthshire, and about Purton Passage, 

 but also extends, in considerable aggregates, along the neigh- 

 bouring midland counties; having myself traced them, either in 

 the Gravel or Limestone, through Gloucestershire, Worcester- 

 shire, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire ; occupying in like man- 

 ner, the lower parts of those Counties, under the Hills. 



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