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ufe they may probably have, which I alfo remit to pofterity to 

 find. 



5 2. They have an earth about Teynton of a yellowifh colour, 

 adorned all over with glittering (parks, which unlefs they are 

 particles of the fpecular (lone, or Englifh Talc, with the former 

 muft be reckoned amongft the unknown earths. 



53. To which add another kind of terra lapidofa found about 

 Thame, at the bottom of their Quarries, it is much of the colour 

 of the Turkjfi Rufma, hollow and fpungy, and full of fhining 

 grains like a fort of Pyrites, but of what nature or ufe I can no 

 where find. Nor of another fort of Clay found at Hampton-Gay, 

 holding a grit of a golden colour, much of the nature of Pyri- 

 tes aureus, only 'tis not found like that in great pieces, which by 

 our modern Naturalifts are called Brafs lumps. 



54. And thus I had concluded the Chapter of Earths, but that 

 I think it belongs to this place to mention alfo fuch accidents as 

 attend them ; and therefore muft not be altogether filentof an 

 eminent Proffett about a mile from Teynton, where from a Hil! 

 Nor th-eaft from thence, ten Mercat towns mz clear day may plain- 

 ly be feen. Nor of a fmall Earth-quake, that on the nineteenth 

 of February, 1665. was obferved at divers places near Oxford-, as 

 ztBlechington, Stanton St. J ohns,i$c. But it fhall fuffice juft to 

 mention it, Relations (with the concomitants') of it, being al- 

 ready publiftied : ' one by the Honorable Robert Boyle Efq; and 

 the other by the Learned Di.Jobn Walks. 



* FhikfTravfaa.Num. io, II. 



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