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Other accidents that frequently attend it, which becaufe fo much 

 commended by Pliny h in Maple, in which they are common, 1 

 think ought much more to be noted in this: And fuch are the 

 Nodofities called Brufcum and Mollufcum, to be found in Afi as 

 well as Maple, which when cut, (hew a curled and twining grain ; 

 the Brufcum th ick and intricate, the Mollufcum being Itreaked in a 

 more direcl; courfe. With the Mollufcum of Afh there is a whole 

 Clofet wainfcoted, at the much Honored Mr. Stonor's o^Watling- 

 /cwPark, the grain of the panes being curioufly waved like the 

 Gamabe's of Achats. And at the Worlhipful Mr. Reads, of the 

 Parifti of Ipfden, the Brufcum of an old Afb is fo wonderfully fi- 

 gured, that in a Dining-table made of it (without the help of 

 fanfie) you have exactly reprefented the figure of the Filh, we 

 commonly call a Jack.-, though endeavoring to mend, they have 

 fomwhat man' d it by Art: and in fome other Tablets the figures 

 of a Vnicorn, and an old Man from the navel upwards, but nei- 

 ther of thefe fo plain as the former. 



81. Jacobus Gaffarellus, amongft his unheard of Curioftties\ 

 tells us of a Tree found in Holland, which being cut to pieces by a 

 wood-cleaver, had in one part of it the figure of a Chalice, in 

 another that of a Priefts Albe, in another that of a Stole ; and in 

 a word, there were reprefented very near all the ornaments be- 

 longing to a Priefl : which relation if true, fays he, it muft needs 

 be confeft, that thefe figures could not be there cafually or by- 

 chance ; and indeed 'tis very hard to think, howfo many things 

 pertinent to the fame office, fhould thus meet together without 

 fome defign of Nature. However, till I am better fatisfied of the 

 truth of the thing, or convinced by the fight of fome other fuch 

 Curiofity, I cannot afford to think ours (being altogether inde- 

 pendent) more than meer accidents. 



82. Befide thefe unufuai accidents of whole Trees,ox: their Trunks^ 

 there are fome alfo that have happened to their upper branches 

 and leaves, whereof the former are fomtimes fafciated, and the 

 latter ftriped. In willows, and fome other of the fofter woods, 

 the uppermoft boughs are commonly fafciated, but the beft of the 

 kind I ever yet faw, was the top-branch of an Aft, which I met 

 with at Biffeter, not only fafciated, but moft uniformly wreathed 

 two or three times round. And there is a good example of this 



k Nat- HiH lib. 16. cap. i6- I Unheard of Curiofities, chap. 5. 



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