5< * The Statural Hifiory 



pjaces, I think I may fay of a bulbous nature, fevcral folds of 

 divers colours and confiftencies, ftill including one another, not 

 unlike the feveral coats of a Tulip root, or Onyon. 

 The i . next the turf, is a reddifb earth. 



2. a pale blue clay, 



3. ayellovpfand. 

 \ 4. a white clay, 



5. an iron /lone. 



6. a white, andfomtimes a reddifb Maum. 



7. a green, fat, oily kjnd of clay. 

 8. a thin iron-coloured rubble. 



9 . a green clay again . 



1 o. another iron rubble, almoft like Smiths cinders. 

 And then the yellow Ochre, which is of two parts. 



1 . The /lone Ochre, which we may alfo call native, be- 

 caufe ready for ufe as foon as 'tis dug : and 



2. Clay Ochre, which becaufeof the natural inequality 

 in its goodnefs, they wafh and fteep two or three 



% days in water, and then beat it with clubs on a plank 

 into thin broadcak.es, of an equal mixture both of 

 good and bad ; then they cut it into fquares like Tiles, 

 and put it on hurdles laid on treftles to dry, which 

 when throughly done 'tis fit for the Merchant. 



15. Where perhaps by the way it may be worthy our notice, 

 how different either the Ochres, or opinions of men concerning 

 them, are now, from what they formerly were : for whereas 

 Diofcorides (as quoted by Wormius z> ) commends to our choice the 

 lighteft earthy Ochre, highly before the other of (lone : We on 

 the contrary, and not without reafon, prefer the /lone Ochre as 

 far before the clay. t 



1 6. I was told of zyellow Ochre fomwhere between Vuckling- 

 ton and Witney, that ferves them thereabout for inferior ufes 

 and met with it befide at fome other places, but none fo good as 

 this at Shotover ; .that at Gar/ington being full of blueftreaks, and 

 afmall parcel (that was (hewn me) taken up about Pyrton inter- 

 mixed a little too much with red, as if it were now in the tranf- 

 mutation (fo much fpoke of by Natural i/ls) by the earth and funs 

 heat ; firft into Rubricks or Ruddle, and thenceatlaft into pnigitk^ 



Or elie blacky Chalk. Ol.WmniiMHfruw.^.i,. * Enceljert Metal, eep.20. 



17. -Now 



