io8 The Statural Hiflory 



born, found always in the decpeft waters, and (ticking to Rocks, 

 much afcer the fame manner as here reprefented in ftone, Fig. 7. 

 which in conformity to Ariftotle may be called Echinites minutue. 

 And this had ended my Difcourfe of Stones refembling Shell- 

 fifi of the crufiaceom kind, but that I am admonifh'd by the 

 Learned, and defervedly Famous Virtuofi, Ur.HookJ 3 and Mr. 

 Ray c , and fince them by the Ingenious Sicilian Gentleman Mon- 

 fieur Boccone d , 



87. That the /lone commonly ftiled Cornu Ammonit, alfo be- 

 longs to this place, as being nothing elfe but the petrified Jhell 

 of the Nautilus, or Coquille de Porcellain ; or as Rondeletius e calls 

 it, the teftaceou* Polypus. Of thefe we find plenty in the Coun- 

 ty of Oxford, of different colours, figures, cizes, but all fo curled 

 up within themfelves, that the place of the bead is always in the 

 circumference and the tail in the center of the /lone, and therefore 

 by the Ancients called Cornua Ammonis, for that they refembled 

 the curled horns of the Ram, worfhipp'd by the name of Jupi- 

 ter Amman in the defarts of Africa f ; to whom Alexander the 

 Great having declared himfelf Son, that he might be the more like 

 fo inhuman a Rather, he affumed the horns of the Ram Deity, as 

 may be feen on the Imprejjes of fome of his Mony. And fo did 

 Lyfimachm that fucceeded him in Thrace s , Attila the Hun, and 

 fome other proud Princes. 



88. The places in this County moft remarkable for this ftone, 

 are 1. The City or Oxford it felf, where, in digging cellars, foun- 

 dations, (src chiefly in the eaftern parts of it, they are commonly 

 met with ; whereof fome are fmall, the parts protuberant, and 

 fwellingtoaround, as in Tab. 5. Fig. 8. others broader and 

 more depreffed, as in Fig.y. but thelineations of both traved,and 

 extended from toward the center, to a fingle edged ridge in the 

 back of the ftone: and therein different from a third fort found 

 alfo at Oxford, whofe I 'in eat ions are larger, notfo thick nor waved, 

 and terminated at greztprotuberances on each fide of the ftone, be- 

 tween which, on the broad back of it, there intercede other /i- 

 neations, the whole body of the ftone being alfo divided by Su- 

 tures, in form much refembling the leaves of Oak-> as in Fig.10. 

 The two latter of thefe are both perforated at the center, and there- 

 in Micograph.Obfcrv. 17. e Obfervations Topograph. />. 12;. * Recherchs^Ol-firvoiioKsNa' 



1urelles,Lettrez%. De Pi/ciitu, lib. 17. cap. 9. f gnhit. Curt'u de rcb. Geff. Alexandri, HiftoT-lib. 4. 

 * S^e the Cabinet in the Bodlcyan Libraiy. 



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