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various kinds. And there are sometimes found whole 

 shell-fish with their shells on, in their natural co- 

 lours, only bruised and broken, and 89010 squeezed 

 flat by the weight of earth, which was cast upon 

 them at the deluge. 



There is another quarry, south of the town, of a 

 blue, hard stone, (probably a pure clay in some an- 

 tediluvian lake) in which are numberless shell-fish of 

 various sorts, but so united to the stone, that it is 

 hard to get them out whole. They are all in the 

 surface of the quarry, within a foot of the top. On 

 the surface there are many shell -fish half in the stone 

 half out. That part which is within the quarry is 

 whole, but is a hard stone. That which is without, 

 is all consumed, but a little of the edges, which are 

 plain shell, 



Some of the shell-fish in this quarry are half open, 

 and filled with the matter of the bed on which they 

 lie. Some of them are broken, others bruised ; the 

 edge of one fish is sometimes thrust into the sides 

 of another. One shell of some is thrust half away 

 over the other, and so they are petrified together. 



Among these there are several great horse-mus- 

 cles such as breed in rivers and ponds. And in the 

 fields and stones near Bramby and Frodingharn 

 is found a sort of fish bending like a ram's horn, 

 and creased like one on the outside. The bed 

 wherein it seems this fish bred, is about a foot 

 thick; in which a"re millions of the lish, sticking half 

 within the stone, half without. And this shell being 

 extremely durable, even the part sticking out, is not 

 consumed, as it usually is in others, but remains 

 whole and entire. 



14. From stone burnt to dust arises lime, which 

 lias this remarkable property, that if cold water bo 

 poured upon it, it presently heats and boils up. In 

 order to account for this, some have supposed, that 



