14.0 The Statural Hi/lory 



is wholly left to the Readers choice. 



i j j. In the Quarry of rubble ftone near Sbotover -h\)l, I met 

 with a Spar-lik? ftone, made I fuppofe of the dropings of petrify- 

 ing water, not unlike to the bags called Manic* Hippocratk, ufed 

 in filtrations by the Cbymifts, three one above another as they 

 tifually place them, as in Fig. i o. And in the very fame Quarry 

 I found a fingle Trocbites of a cinereous colour, fo called from 

 its likenefs to a wbeel, having rays coming forth of its center, 

 like the fpoaks of a Cart-wheel from its ftock, hub, or nave : 

 Thefe are faid to have affinity with the Lafujudaicws in their tex- 

 ture ', and with the Afteridt in the property of moving in Vine- 

 gar k , neither of which I could well try, having but one, and 

 that toofetin a rubble ftone of the Quarry They are found 

 plentifully Northward in Holy- I/land, and in the bottom of the 

 Chanel of the River Tees l , at Braugbton and Stock, in Torkrfiire, 

 at Beres ford in Stafford-fiire, and are commonly there called 

 St. Cuthberfs Beads, whereof 1 intend Cuts, and (hall treat more 

 at large when I come to thofe places. 



178. At the Parifh of Heat b I met with a reddifh fort of ftone, 

 intheufual form of zWbet-ftone, as in Tab.S. Fig, ir, about 

 fbur inches long, very hard, and for both thofe reafons not fit 

 for ufe : it was given me by Mr. Evans, Reftor of the place, and 

 faid by him to be taken out of a block of ftone dug in the Quar- 

 ries thereabout, naturally having grown in that form. And at 

 Stonor there was given me a crifp'd white ftone, taken up not 

 far thence, rcfembling a fort of Sweet-meat, not like the Confetti 

 de Tivoli, but rather of Viterbo mentioned by Aldrovandws n , or a 

 fort of Sweet-meat we have from Portugal. 



1 79. Amongft the fiones, like things of Art, I think I muft 

 alfo number a fort of globular iron-colour' d balls, taken up about 

 Cornwell ; whereof I have two given me by Sir Tbotnas Pennyfton ; 

 the ont plain and fmooth, the other granulated on the out-fide, 

 not unlike to an Orange, very weighty, and made up within of a 

 golden ftriated fubftance from the center to the circumference, 

 shewn in the Hemi/pbere of one of them, Fig. 12. Of thefe there 

 arcfome fo equally round, as if done by Art ; and fo they are 

 fays Cambdenat Huntley Nab, where under the craggy Rocks 



l Boet. de Lapid.&Gem.capi.i->. k Geo. Agricola de Natura FoJJilium, cap. 5. 1 Mr. Hay's Topo- 

 graph, obfervat. />. 116. Philofoph- Tranfadt- Num. 100. n Mujaum Metallicum, lib. 4. />. 518. 

 Cambd. in the North-Riding of Tork-fbire. 



they 



