Of XFO ^V-SHIXM: 7f 



pound, which amounts to above twenty (hillings a bufheb 



23. Other fands there are alfo of very good ufe, to give a 

 confiftency and body to glafl ; the naturally whiteft are at Nettle* 

 bed and S 'hot-over , but the fineft by much at F inflockznd. Ledwell^ 

 which when wafbed and cleanfed , at leaft equal the former* 

 Thefirft of thefe has been tryed with fuccefs at the Glafs-houfe 

 ztHenly : and any of the reft, perhaps, might prove as good 

 Tarfo as any they have from France, or is nfed in Italy, were they 

 but in place where they might be tryed, 



24. From Sands, I proceed to Lapps atenarius, commonly caU 

 led Free-fione, and ufed in Building ; of which we have as great 

 plenty and variety in Qxford-fiire, peradventure as in any other 

 part of England. The Quarry at Heddington, fcarce two miles 

 from Oxford, fuppliesus continually with a good tort of ftone, and 

 fit for all ufes but that of fire-, in which, that of Teynton and 

 Hornton excel it. In the Quarry it cuts very foft and eafie, and 

 is worked accordingly for all forts of Building ; very porous,and 

 fit to imbibe lime and fand, but hardening continually as it lies 

 to the weather. 



25. Of it in general, there are two forts ; one that they call 

 Free-slone, and the other Rag-ftone : but thefe again are fubdi- 

 vided into feveral fpecies, according as they are cut or put to di- 

 vers ufes. The Free-fione, if cut cubically into very great blocks., 

 is theft by way of eminence called nothing but Ftee-flone ; but if 

 cut into oblong, or other forts of fquares, of a leffer bulk, they 

 then call it /[filer; and the fragments of thefe of inequilateral^ 

 multangular Figures, Scabble-burs. The two firft are ufed irt 

 principal Buildings, and thelaft, if fquared, is fomtimes mixed 

 with A/hlerm Range -work, or by it felf in that they call Planted- 

 workm the meaner Buildings : but when not fquared at all* is 

 commonly thrown in amongft Rag-flone for walling; for which 

 only, and making lime, that fecond fort is good, except it rifes 

 flat in the bed, and then 'tis worth the while to hew it for 

 paving. A 



26. Of the Jl one afore-mentioned confifts the grofs of our 

 Buildings; but for Columns, Capitels, Bafes, Window-lights, Door- 

 cafes, CorniJ/Ang, Mouldings, (yc. in the chiefeft work they ufe 

 Burford-ftone, which is whiter and harder, and carries by much 

 a finer Arris, than that at Heddington: but yet is not fohard as 



K 2 that 



