the fame parts, but by addition of Tome , and fub— 

 itradlion of others , if I imagine aright , the new ef- 

 fect is wrought. The proof s hereof may be , that 

 the fibres of wood appear vihble and to the touch and 

 taiie amidft the body of the Hone, 



In Ireland there is a Lake wherein (as that Noble 

 Per fon I but now mentioned , hath related to me) 

 there is foe great a petrifying faculty that the beft 

 vvhetibnes ufed in that nation , are made of wood , 

 caft therein to be petrified . In which Hones though 

 all the lineaments of the woody fibres remain, yet 

 they are indued with thehardnefle, and other quali- 

 ties of an exacl itone. And Corall , the entire ftony- 

 nefle thereof noe man can doubt , may well be ima- 

 gined to be originally a vegetable bearing root , ftalkj 

 and leafe ; and that afterward it is turned into its 

 hardneffe by the peculiar property of the water: whe- 

 ther thefe operations of nature are likewife perfected 

 by addition and fubftraction of parts only,or whether it 

 be required that lbme parts for the production of this 

 effect be tranfmut-ed I fhall not clerermine. 

 And for the deciding the whole question ,if the form 

 be fpecificall,and fo made by the aggregation of a cer- 

 tain number of accidents,thofe accidents guhatnimv 

 ber muft be atfigned that are thought enough to com- 

 pleat a new form,before we may begin to judge in this 

 matter for that very many accidents maybe changed ir. 

 appears bythe above named inftances in vegetables 2c 

 in other bodyes many more : VinegerandVYine,are 

 the fame 'parts tranfpofed and yet there feemes to 

 be more difference between them than between Fn- 

 dive and Cichory ,Maidenhaire and Scolopendrium , 

 Rubarb and Dockes , which are in Vegetables efteem- 

 ed for diverfe fpecies formally or fpecifically diftin- 

 ..juifhed. Numb*. 



