154 LETTER VII. 



3. That Stones naturally grow, is, I think, 

 evident enough, becaufe divers things have been 

 found in the middle of them, that w^ithout fuch 

 a growth, could never have come there. Many- 

 Authors of undoubted Credit might be brought 

 to prove the affertion : But I ihall content my- 

 felf with mentioning Maximilian Mijjbn only ; 

 whofe teftimony I propofe to back, with a few 

 Inftances and Obfervations, that have fallen un-- 

 der my own cognizance. 



4. That judicious Huguenot^ in volume the 

 third and page 67 of his book, entituled, A New 

 Voyage to Italy ^ quotes T!aj]oni^ and tells us from 

 him. That fome Labourers being employed to 

 dig Stone at T^ivoli^ near to Rorne^ and having 

 cleft a great Mafs, found in the middle of it an 

 empty fpace, in which there was a living Cray- 

 fifh, that weighed four Pounds, which they boil- 

 ed and eat. Other Authors aiTure us; That a 

 wrought Diamond was taken out of the heart of 

 a great piece of Marble 5 that a confiderable quan» 

 tity of Sweet Oyl was found in another like piece 

 of Marble ; and that a living Worm came out of 

 the middle of a Flint : But, fays he, before I em- 

 ployed my time in reafoning upon fuch fort of 

 Fadts, I would be fure of the Truth of them, by 

 undoubted Proof. 



5. Without making any other Remarks on 

 this paffage of M. Mijfon^ w^ho feems ftrongiy 



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