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CHAP. IV. ; 



Of Stones. 



AS in the Chapters of Waters and Earths; I treated only of 

 fuch a* eminently held fome fait or fulphur, and were 

 fome way or other ufeful to Man : I intend in like man- 

 ner in this of Stones ftriftly to obferve the fame method, and take* 

 notice only of fuch as either plainly (hew thofe Minerals, and 

 fupply the nettffities ; or are for the ornament, or delight of Man- 

 kind. 



2. How sW/lones are chiefly made out offatts, with a mixture 

 of earth and fomtimes of fulphur, was formerly hinted in ano- 

 ther place. It remains only that I confider them in a more par- 

 ticular manner, and (hew which they be, and where they are, 

 that hold any of thefe principles more fignally than other, which 

 I fuppofe by their effefts may beft be difcover'd. 



3. In the Road from Oxford toward London, not far beyond 

 Tetjwortb, in a hollow way on therifing of a hill, I found a fcft 

 ftone there-about called Maume , of a whitifh colour ; whofe 

 fait is fo free from the bonds of fulphur, that with the frofts and 

 rain it flakes like lime : perhaps half the firing ufed to burn away 

 the fulphur in other lime-ficne, might ferve the turn here. An Ex- 

 periment fo very likely to be beneficial to the Country, that I left 

 it with the Son of the ingenious Improver, Sir Thomat Tipping } 

 as a thing not unworthy of his Fathers tryal ; but whether he 

 have at all, or but unfuccefsfully made any* I have not yet had the 

 favor to hear. 



4. In the way to Whitfield, as I rod thither from Tetfveorth, I 

 found the ways mended with this kinde of fl one, I fuppofe be- 

 caufe they could get no other, for certainly otherwife there were 

 nothing more unfit, than a ftone of fo loofe and open a/j// : 

 much rather with fuch fhould they mend their Lands than High- 

 ways, that like lime, marks, and chalk, will flake in the Winter ; 

 which I take for fo fure a mark of its improving quality, that I can- 

 not but commend it to the tryal of the Country. 



5 . And for their encouragement, let me farther tell them, that 

 at a place called Hornton in the North of this County, they com- 

 monly 



