Of XFO <R~S HI%E. id? 



fore called by Bauhinws h , Cornua Ammon'pspertv.fa : And all three 

 adorned with afhining brafen Armature, in lufter equalling that 

 metal it felf, yet of which in fubftance it has nothing lefs, though 

 Agricola have affirmed it to be nature rudimentum id met allum face- 

 re difcentis. 



89. BoetiusdeBoot, in his Book deLapidibus iff Gemmis\ thinks 

 the flone it felf naturally of a ferrugineous colour, which lying in 

 an Earth fated with an aluminous juice, is changed thereby into 

 this brafen colour. To which de Laet k in his Supplement, adds, 

 atr amentum fut or ium ; both which, he fays, joined, give that co- 

 lour to Iron. For my part, I rather think it may be performed 

 by Nature, much after the fame manner they guild money at our 

 Englijb Baths-, if fo, there will be requifite fomthing urinous, 

 which they always add thereto fuperinducefuch a colour,where- 

 of more at large when I come into Somerfet-flnre. 



90. The ftcond place eminent for produftion of thefe slones, 

 is the Parifh of Cleydon, where they find them of many more 

 turns than thofe at Oxford, though not much bigger ; without 

 Armature, of a yellomjh colour ( like the ^Jltridt before men- 

 tion'd found at the hmeplace) and differentlyy?r/tf/^, as in Fig. 

 1 1 . in which theflrU from the innermoft part of the flone are all 

 fmgle, but many of them divided before they reach the rim of it," 

 where they are terminated with a back much more protuberant 

 than the reft of the flone, but alike flriated. 



9 1 . Near Thame, in the Fields Eaftward from the Church, they 

 fomtimes meet alfo with the Cornu Ammonh, Jlriated fmgly like 

 the former, near the inner part of the flone, and prefently divi- 

 ding, but without termination either at any ridge, or othzxprotu- 

 ber amies in the back ; the divifion being continued to the other 

 fide of the flone, where 'tis made again into one common linea- 

 Hon, as in Fig. 12. Of which fort I had fome arches or parts fent 

 me alfo from Chiflehampton, by the Right Worfhipful Sir John 

 V'Oyly Baronet, in whom flourifh all the Virtues of that ancient 

 Houfe. But thefe (not like the former) a hard flone, but fome 

 of them a kind of Terra lapidofa, or hardened yellow clay, one 

 degree perhaps above that of the bed wherein they lay; which 

 (befide Sir Thomas Fenny flons clay Cockles) feem to overthrow 



* Joann.Bauhinusde Lapidibtn var'tis in fine Hift. admit abi lis font 'is Bollertps* ' Cap . 24.6. k De La- 

 fid. & Gemmii, cap. 22. 



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