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Fig. 7. To which may be added, the Lapides Judaki or Oxford- 

 fiire, which though of a much more (lender and longer figure 

 than any fort of Olive, yet becaufe in other Countries they are 

 found in that shape, and for that very reafon called fomtimes Py- 

 renes, and treated on by Authors s amongft flones relating to the* 

 fruits of Trees, I shall not change their place. We find them 

 hereof different cizes, from abcut two inches in length and an 

 inch and half in circuit, downwards to an inch andlefs in length, 

 and not much above half an inch round : Moft of them have a 

 kind of pedicle, from which they feem to have had their growth, 

 and are ridged and channelled the whole length of the Jlone the 

 ridges be'mgpurled with fmall knots, fet in the Quincunx order, as 

 in Tab. 6. Fig. 8. As to their texture, 1 find it to be very curious, 

 made up of Lamella or little thin plates, not unlike the flone Se- 

 lenites ; only thefe are opaque, and the whole bulk of the flone 

 indeed much different. The Plates, as in the Selenites, feem to 

 be made up of firings, which in moft of them run three, but in 

 fome but two ways ; according to the running of thefe firings 

 the slones willeafily cleave, but generally fome one way rather 

 than any other, which moft commonly is agreeable to the helical 

 running of the ridges of knots or furrows between . them, yet all 

 ways obliquely to the Axis of the ftone, as is perfectly shewn, 

 Tab. 6. Fig. 9. which reprefents the flone broken the three fe- 

 veral ways. 



137. By Authors they are faid to be of different Sexes, the 

 leffer and rounder of the feminine, and the greater and longer of 

 the mafculine gender ; whereof the former is good againft the 

 flone in the bladder, and the latter againft it in the kidneys, for 



which reafons they are fomtimes by Authors called Eurrhei, and 

 Tecolithi. The greater and longer, fays Gefner ' are rarely found, 

 but that muft be reftrained to his own Country ; for here in Ox- 

 ford-Jhire, and particularly in the Quarries of rubble ftone near 

 Shotover-h\\\, we have plenty of them. 



138. There is another fort of them alfo at the fame place, 

 much more (lender than the reft, plain and fmooth, without ei- 

 ther ridges or channels, mention'd by Cafalpinus u ; which (and 

 not the Laphjudaicwi) by him is faid to be the true Tecolithm of 



f Gefner it Figum Labium, cap. <j- Hem loco citato. Andreas Oralpinus ie Metallicis, lib.i- 



Pliny, 



