94. The j\(atural Hijlory 



fcraped with a knife^ they yield an odour like rafped Horn. 



40. In magnitude and colour they differ much, the biggeft I 

 have met with yet, being that expreft in Tab. 3. Fig. 3. in length 

 fomwhat above four inches, and mthickjiefs much about an inch 

 and *. This was found in the Quarries in the Pariih of Hedding- 

 ton, hollow at the top about an inch deep, and filled with a kind 

 of gravelly earth ; and has the rima or chink.-, which Aldrovan- 

 du* and Boetiws fay all of them have ; but I find itotherwife, as 

 (hall be fhewn anon. Of colour it is cinereous, inclining to yellow, 

 and if vehemently rubb'd, is the only one amongft all that I have, 

 that like Amber takes woflraws, and fome other light bodies. 



41 . There are of them alfo of a bluifi colour, found at Great 

 Rohright in a bluifi clay, of about a fingers length, hollow at 

 the top, and have fome of them, inftead of one, three clefts or 

 rim*, but neither fo plain or long as the former, they afcending 

 from the cu/pis fcarce half up the (tone : two whereof are (hewn 

 Fig. 4. and the third hidden behind the Sculpture ; which may 

 make fome amends for that of Fig. 5. which is of colour cine- 

 reous and hollow at the top, but has no chink at all ; whereof 

 there was a bed found in digging the Sulphur Well at Mr. Lanes 

 of Veddington, as was mentioned before in the Chapter of Wa- 

 ters. 



42. To which add a fourth fort, found in great plenty in the 

 Gravel-pits without St. Clements, in the fuburbs of Oxford, very 

 few of them hollow at the top like the former, but radiated like 

 a /for from a clofer center, as in Fig. 6*. which made Gefner* 

 think it to be the jftrapios of Pliny, though exprefly he fays, 'tis 

 of a white or azure w , whereas this is always of an amber colour : 

 yet draws not ftraws, is fomwhat tranfparent, and may therefore 

 pafs for a fort of Lapis Lyncuriws ; not that it has original from 

 the urine of that Beaft, for we have plenty of the ftones here and 

 none of the animals, but from the unpleafant fmell it has when 

 burn'd or brayed ; like the urine of Cats, or fuch like ramifh 

 creatures, whereof the Lynx perhaps may be one. Thefe, mod 

 of them, are made tapering to a point like the former ; yet fom- 

 times having a blunter ending, and the chink, on both fides, I 

 thought fit rather to (hew it in that form than the other, as in 



* Thefe not being hollow at the top, nor containing any other ftonc, gravel, or earth, fome call the 

 male Be/emnites : the three former being of the female kind- De Figurit Lapidim, cap. 5. w Mat. 

 Hifi.lii. 37. c*f. ix. 



Fig. 6. 



