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than to mend the high-ways, or fome other mean ufes. Nor can 

 1 inform the owners of thefe Quarries of any better that it may 

 have, except they (hall think fit to burn it for Lime, for which I 

 dare promife it muft needs be excellent. 



60. And fo is the ftone O/lracomorphos, made of heaps of Oj- 

 fiers cemented together, and found plentifully enough on Shot* 

 over hill, not far from the way to Sir Timothy Tyrrils ; of which 

 I have forbornto give any draught, it being eafily conceived from 

 the manner of the Cockjes thus heaped, together in the two for- 

 mer cuts. 



61. To thefe fucceed the fiones refembling Sea-fifb of the te- 

 ftaceou<s kind, not found in clufters after the manner of the former, 

 but in a feparate ftate : of thefe there are fome curioufly lineated, 

 and others plain, with but few or no fuch ornaments, which yet 

 I muft treat of promifcuoufly together, becaufe there are of both 

 forts in feveral /pedes. 



62. Of thefe again fome are of a turbinated form, and others 

 bivalvular, refembling the double fhell'd kind, joyned together 

 with a hinge, and yet thefe Tomtimes found all with their (hells 

 apart, and fomtimes again none of them fo. 



63 . Amongft thefe the turbinated or wreathedk'md ofjiones, by 

 the Greeks called Strombites, from <rp*<pwtorqueo, to wreath (which 

 is always helically, and for the moft part from the right hand to 

 the left, and finally from a greater to a fmaller ending) are but 

 feldom found : However, I have met with both the forts of A- 

 gricola g , the greater, which he fays is fomtimes nine inches long, 

 but ours indeed not much exceeding five, of a yhinfuperjicies, as 

 in Tab. 4. Fig. 1 *. and the lefler wanting of half an inch in 

 length, but curioufly ftriated, as Fig. 2. both found in the Quar- 

 ries in the Parilh of Heddington, of a cinereous colour, fomwhat 

 inclining to yellow, and of a harder confiftence than the ftone 

 wherein they lye. 



64. But as for fuch as reprefent the bivalvular Conch*, fuch as 

 Cockles, Efcallops, Oyflers, isc. we have very great plenty, as well 

 of kinds as individuals. The Conchites or Cockle-ftones found 

 in this County, may alfo be divided into the greater and letter ; 

 whereof the greater arc fome of them ftriated with large ftri<e, 



g Ve NaturaToj[ilium,Ub. 7, * Vtd. Bucchium lapidcum Lcvc Fate Columna, Aquatili*m& terrejhr. 

 oi/erv.cap. 22. 



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