12 Of the Petrified City, 



" Spears. — That he faw different Sorts of Animals, fuch as 

 "Camels, Oxen, Alfes, Horfes, Sheep and Birds; (nay the 

 " very Dogs, Cats and Mice, are enumerated in other Accounts;) 

 " all of them converted into Stone, and of the above-mentioned 

 "Colour. In one of thefe Hiftories, fome of thefe Bodies are 

 "faid to want their Heads, others a Leg or an Arm; and fo 

 "far agree with the Caravan of preferved (not petrified) Bo- 

 " dies, above recited. It is further related, that feveral Pieces 

 "of petrified Money ' had been brought from thence; fome 

 "of which were of the Bignefs of zwEnglipj Shilling, charged 

 "with a Horfes Head on one Side, and fome unknown Cha- 

 " rafters on the other." This is the Subftance of that Variety 

 of Reports which have been given and related at different 

 Times, and by different Perfons ', of this Place. 

 An Account Scvcral Stories and Relations, of the like Transformation 

 Transforma- of livittg Crcatures into Stone, are collected by Aldrovandmy 

 L7. '" "' in his Mufaum Metallicum\ (p. 8x^.) where, amongft others, 

 he gtves us the Hiftory, and at the fame Time, a Groupe of 

 Figures, confifting of Men, Sheep and Camels, converted into 

 Stone. As Tartary is reported to be the Scene of this Tranf- 

 formation, it is very probable, that this is the fame Story, which 

 is recorded by ylnthony Jenkinfon \ in his Map of Tartary, 

 preferved by Ortel'ms. Kircher * alfo acquaints us, that he had 

 learnt, from fome Geographers, of a whole Horde of Men and 

 Cattle being turned into Stone : where, by ufing the Word 

 Horde, we may fufpedt the People to have been Tartars^ and 



1 Though Coins, by lying in Sand, Earth &c. where Salt is concerned, may acquire 

 fucli an appearance, by fome of the fandy &c. Particles Ihcking and adhering to them j 

 yet the Coins here mentioned, notwithftanding fuch an Alteration in their Superficies, 

 could be no other, than what have been defcribed at p. 59, 60. of my Excerpta. In Mr. 

 Fitton's Letter to Sr. Kenelm Digby, preferved in the Mercurim Pol'tnm, N°. 334. the petri- 

 fied Pieces of Money, are faid to be Venetian Zecchines. 



2 Vid. Merc. PoMcus, utfupra. S- Clarke's Geographical Defcription of all the known 

 Kingdoms of the World, 3d. Edit. p. 193. The Adventures of T. S. an Engii/}} Merchant 

 taken Prifoner at Algiers. Lend. 1670. p. 240. Capt. V^ivg's Travels, Vol. i. p. 280. 

 Conful Baker's Relation publirtied amongft Dr. Hooke's Papers by Mr. Dcrbam, p. i%6. 

 Mr. Boyle in his general Heads for the Natural Hiftory of a Country, Qa. 24. TurklPjSpy, 

 Vol. J. p. 158. Martini a Baumgarten ?ere^nn:iuo 8cc. Nor'ib. 1^94- And in Churchil's 

 CoUedion of Travels, at p. 406. Vol. i, Ath. Kircheri Mundus Subterraneus, Vol. 2. 



3 In one of the Compartments of this Map, are the following Words; "HaicSaxaho- 

 minum, jumentorum, camelorum, pecorumque, caeterarumque rerum formas referentia, 

 Horda populi gregcs pafcentis armentaque fuit ; qu.-e ftupcndi quidam Metamorphofi re- 

 pente in Saxa riguit, priore form^ null^ in parte imminuti. Evenit hoc prodigium annis 

 circiter 300. retro elapfis. 



4 Mund. Subter. ut fupra. 



that 



