ii2 OF FOSSIL - SHELLS, See. 



Vegetables are more frequently found foffil, than animals. 

 Oaks of a great fize, firm and found, have been taken out of a 

 large mofs on JBewick-M.QOT t called King's Mofs, by the road from 

 Chillingham to Aln-wick, near a noted aperture in a freeftone- 

 rock, called Catherines cave. In another mofs, on Harup- 

 Moor, near it, there are roots of trees of an unufual fize, 

 Handing in fome places very thick ; fome of them found, of a 

 beautiful colour within, like the Alder, our Engli/Jj mahogony. 

 On moft of our other moors, fubterrene or foffil trees have been 

 found in the mofTes, fome very hard, and as black as ebony. The 

 foreft of Allendale, the foreft of Loiues, and the forefts of Reedfdale 

 and Cheviot, all afford the like memorials. 



Hazel-nuts have alfo been found foffil, in great quantities. 

 Robert Hall, a labourer of Bewick, an old man, living September 3, 

 1760, found many in draining a mofs on the eftate of the late 

 Dixy Windfor, Efq; at Wapperton, 'to whom he gave them, who prc- 

 ferved them for the infpecStiou of the curious. 



An hazel-bum, with nuts upon it, was found in finking a 

 coal-pit about feventeen years ago at Lotting ton, near Newbnrn, 

 fifteen fathom deep, in a mofs-earth ; fair and frefii to look 

 upon, till expofed to the air, when they mouldered away. 



Impreffions of vegetables, and fometimes entire fruits, and 

 the nervous parts of leaves, are frequently found on the Hone- 

 beds of our rivers, and fea-fhores, and metallic veins j the fairell 



in aniientand modern authors ; with an accurate examination of the Skeletons, and parts of 

 flceletons, {hewn up and down as undeniable arguments of the exiffance of giants. 



Ph. Tr. No. 403, 404. Dr. Thomas Molyncux's Effay concerning the bones of giants. 



Ph. Tr. No. 261. Count Ferdinand de Marfiglfs Diflirtation in his Hiftory of the Da- 

 nube, Tom. 6. upon the fkeletons and bones of elephants dug up near and in the Roman 

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