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for the feveral. Kinds, Colours, llrange Shapes, 

 and beautiful Impreflions of Stones 5 I ought to 

 have acquainted you. That at Antigua^ there are 

 fome large white and roundifli Stones, whofe iii- 

 fide is hollow, and all over this fpace, is, as it 

 were, one continued heap of fair Cryftal, (but 

 all of a piece with the Face, or outward part) 

 which fometimes does In a tolerable degree repre- 

 fent wrought Diamonds, clofe together. I had a 

 Ring ornamented with one of them, cut Brilliant- 

 fafhion, which looked like a Brijlol Stone : And 

 if I miftake not, I fent along with my Shells, a 

 piece of one of them that weighed about an 

 Ounce. I mufi: tell you too. That I have, near 

 Wallingford^ in Berkpi?^e^ difcovered fome Flints 

 of the fame nature, but do not pretend to account 

 for their Shapes, any more than I would for their 

 Infides, being fo much more tranfparent than th©^ 

 Outfide Face of the Stone : Brijiol Stones grow 

 in the fame manner. 



39. If you make a queilion, at Paragrah 36, 

 about the Lizard's Tail growing out again to its 

 ufual length, after being bit or cut off, by a/king 

 me, whether that new part of the Tail was of 

 the fame ufe with the former, or exadly of the 

 felf-fame fubftance ; I anfwer, That I never dif- 

 fered a Lizard ; that its Tail drags upon the 

 Ground after it, without any great apparent ufe 

 that I could perceive ; and that if its Tail was 



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