of o xFO%i>~sm%E. >* 



Fig. 6. where the cleft runs not only the whole length of the 

 ftone, but quite under the end, and half way up the other fide. 

 - 43. Many are the Medicinal uCes of this done, mentioned by 

 Boetius , Aldrovandut , and Gefner : Whereof the chief aire, 

 1. For the tlone, for which (inftead of the Eurrhrfut) 'tis ufed 

 in Spain and Saxony. 2. For exficcation of wounds in Pruffia and 

 Pomerania. And 3. for ocular diftempers in Horfes, in all parts 

 of England. 



44. Thus having run through the fuppofltitious ftones from 

 Heaven, I nextdefcendto the Atmofpbere, or inferior Air, im- 

 mediatly encompaffing the terraqueous Globe ; which though in- 

 capable of itfelf to be reprefented inftone, yet having met with 

 fome related to its Inhabitants, I mean the feathered Kingdom, I 

 thought fit to give them place before thofe of the Waters. 



45. Whereof thefirft and only one, reprefented in Sculpture 

 Tab. 3, Fig. 7. has perfectly the fhape of an Owls head, which 

 becaufe not mention'd by any Author that I know of, I thought 

 good to exhibit, and call Lapk Buboniut ; it is a black, flint with- 

 in, and cinereous without, and was found near to Hardwick in the 

 Parifh of Whitchurch. 



46. To which I might have annex'd the (lone Hieracites^ found 

 frequently in the Quarries in the Parifh of Heddington, but is not 

 the Hieracites mention'd by Fliny ', which he fays alternatly 

 changes its colour ; but of Gefner x , to whofe figure of it, ours is 

 exa&ly like : but neither his nor ours refembling any thing of a 

 Hawks, or other Birds feathers, fo much as to deferve a cut, or 

 the Readers view ; I have faved my felf the expence, and him the 

 trouble. 



47. Next the Air, the flones that concern the Watery Kingdom, 

 fall in order of Nature under confideration, whereof there are 

 fome thatfeem to be nothing elfe but meerly concreted drops of 

 water,fo\md plentifully in the Fields about Kircklingtomnd North- 

 brook, which I touched on before under petrifications, and pro- 

 mifed to treat of more largely here. By Authors they are cal- 

 led Stalagmites, and feem either to be generated of pearls of dew, 

 fetled on the ftones as they lie in the Fields, which firft being 

 coated over with the fmall terrene atoms that are flying in the Air, 

 and by that means kept in their own form for fome confiderable 



* L;'. 37. cap. 10. x Df Figwii LapMum, cap. i$. 



time, 



