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about lies very high, and is as ftony afaft ground, as almoft any 

 where to be found. 



5 8 . It remains therefore, that it muft needs be defignedty bu- 

 ried, and if in any other places of the heathy as well as in the 

 pond, may poffibly be difcover'd either by the herbage over them, 

 which will wither much fooner than any of the reft; as near Yeo- 

 vil in Somerfet-Jbire , where, as we are informed by the Reverend 

 and Learned Dr. Beal a , the parched part juft over them, will 

 bear the very length and fhape in grofs of the trees, whence they 

 have been inftru&ed to find and take up hundreds of Oaks : 

 Or by the direction of the dew in Summer ; it being obferved in 

 Cumberland , that the dew never ftands on any of the ground 

 under which fuch trees lie ; though poffibly too, on the other 

 fide we may have no fuch indications here in firm grounds, they 

 being hitherto obferved only in moors and mojfes. 



59. But as for the timber at Blunds Court, as it was found, fo 

 it requires a deeper refearch, it being very unlikely they fliould 

 dig fo low, upon the fame fcore as at Binfield, fince timber might 

 have been buryed on far eafier terms., as formerly in Kent. Much 

 lefs can it be admitted it fliould be f wallowed by an Earth-quake, 

 or as the vulgar will needs have it, thus cover'd with Earth by 

 the violence of a Flood, and particularly by that in the days of 

 Noah. For in either of thofe cafes, we fhould have found each 

 tree with roots as well as branches, whereas thefe were plainly 

 hewen off at the Kerf, as is ufed in felling Timber, the marks of 

 the Ax ftill remaining upon them. 



60. Befide, the feveral other things found in company of thefe 

 trees, feem to give teftimony of fome other matters. Thefirft 

 and chiefeft whereof, is that blewifh kind of fubftance, which 

 I am ftrongly perfwaded is C&ruleum nativum, and the rather, 

 becaufe found in an AJJj -colour" d Earth. The true Cyprian C<*ru- 

 hum, or Ultramarine, as is teftified by Rulandws, being found in 

 terra cinerea ; and the Cdzruleum Pat avinum, m glebis{ubcinereit F ; 

 with whom agrees Kentmannus, as cited above, Chap. 3.^. 18. 

 And if true C<eruleum, we have reafon to fufpeft a Mine under- 

 neath ; for then, fays Aldrovandut, is Coeruleum produced, when 

 fome faline acid humor (fuch as the Vitriol that dies the Trees 



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