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1 73 . Whence 'tis plain, that whether we refpecl: the mof e an-' 

 cient or modern Times, 'tis poffible enough thefe bones from 

 Cornwell might be the bones of a man or woman, there being no 

 decay apparent in the conftitutions of Mankind from the begin- 

 ning to this day, but what is adventitious and accidentals faving 

 in the longevity of the antediluvian Patriarchs. 



174. Befide this Gigantick. thigh-bone, there is another front 

 at the foot of Shotover-h\\\, amongftthe Orchites before -mention- 

 ed^ Seel. 144. thatalfo reprefents one of the Artut-, viz^. the 

 Leg and Foot of a Man cut off above the ancle, as in Tab.S. Fig.6. 

 which from the toe to the heel is about a yard long, and per- 

 haps in the whole may weigh 50 or 60 pounds .* But I take not 

 this for a petrification as the former, but a ftone formed in this 

 fliape purely by Nature, which may therefore be termed Andra- 

 podites, as might all thofc of the kind mentioned by Wormiu* h . 

 To which alfo may be added the Lapis acetabulum refere /z^whereof 

 there is plenty on the Chiltern-hWls. And a fort of OJleocolla found 

 in Utddington rubble Quarries, which fcraped, has the fmell of 

 burnt bone, and may I fuppofe be the fame mentioned by Gefner *, 

 that was fent him by Peter Coldeberg, Apothecary of Antwerp. 



175. After the Stones that relate to the parts of Animals, 

 come we laftly to thofe that refemble things of Art, fuch as that 

 in the form of a button-mold, Fig. 7. whereof there were feveral 

 found in the very fame Quarry with the thigh-bone and tooth, in 

 the Parifh of Cornmll, and no doubt did belong to the owner of 

 thofe bones : And the other in the (hape of the heel of an oldfioo, 

 with the Lifts plainly to be diftinguifh'd, as in Fig. 8. which 

 was found fomwhere near Oxford, and given me by the Right 

 Reverend and profoundly Learned, Thomat Lord Bifhopof Lin- 

 coln, one of thefirft Promoters of this Defign. But both thefe 

 I take to be but petrifications, and therefore mif-placed here like 

 the Adarce and thigh-bone. 



1 7 6. But 1 have another fort of button-slone, fent me from 

 Teynton, which I take to be a meer production of Nature, finely 

 ftriated from the top as I have feenfome hair buttons, as inFig.y. 

 and may therefore be called Porpites : Except we (liould rather 

 take it for a new fort of Echinites, not; yet difcover'd, which 



h Mufati Wormian. cap. it,. Jntegrtmpedemhominiiinlapia'em'verjum.fpettandmthal/et Mufeum Calceo- 

 larium, loh- Bayt. OHvus, p. C%. * Gelher de F<g. Lapid. cap. 12. 



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