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tombed in flone, with madrepores, fungitse, entrochoi, and 

 teftaceous bodies. 



21. A marmorite compofed of large coralloid porl, with fin?, 

 thin, longitudinal plates, in a ilellate order, from the axis to the 

 circumference, interfered by numerous tranfverfe fcpta or dia- 

 phragms ; the ends of the columns concave ; a prominent flar 

 in the center, with a fmall apex or point ; three quarters of an 

 inch in diameter ; the interior colour a dark brown, and a yel- 

 lowim-white, in a beautiful Variegation ; looking after politure 

 like an aflemblage of auricula-pips, appearing on all fides of 

 the mafs in a diftmct and elegant difpofition. It is a foot long, 

 and half a foot thick. It Was turned up by the fpade in trench- 

 ing Sir Lancelot Allgood's garden at Nunivick, near the brook. It is 

 fometimes found, but rarely, on the fea-fhore, by Rofs- Links y 

 near Belford, from which I had a fmall mafs worn and fmoothed 

 by the tides. It is the great Lithojlrotion of De Boot and Wormius (lj y 

 and the Alcynoium of that eminent lithogift, Mr. Edward Lbivyd, 

 keeper of the AJhmolean mufeum (m). It takes an excellent 

 polifh. Mr. Lhivyd found fome of it in Wales, but he does not 

 tell us where, incorporated in limeftone, not exceeding fix, nine, 

 or twelve inches in diameter, preferable, in his opinion, to the 

 Florentine marble. He has publifhed a neat print of two pieces, 

 one polifhed perpendicularly, and the other horizontally (n). 

 The ingenious and curious naturalift Mr. "John Beaumont, of Stoney- 

 Eafton, under Mendip-\\i\\?,, in Somerfetjhire, who propofed oblig- 

 ing the world with a natural hiftory of that county, if he had 



(I) Lapidis aftroitidis five ftellaris primum genus. DeBoot, cle Gemm. ci Lapid. 1. ir. 

 Wcrm. Mufeum. 



(m) Ph. Tr. No. 252. (n) Ibid. 



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