abouts ; for he had had people to bore in 

 search of it, and they had gone to the 

 depth of 130 yards without any success, 

 as I could easily conceive. 



This clay did not seem to compose a 

 very uniform stratum, not only consisting 

 of harder and softer parts, but having 

 likewise those flints and pebbles scatter'd 

 through it, in such manner, if I conceived 

 rightly of the matter, as to shew that 

 though they might perhaps have been 

 formed in it originally, yet supposing 

 this to be the case, they must, however, 

 have been somewhat disturbed from their 

 places after their formation, though I 

 neither saw nor could learn circumstances 

 sufficient to form any probable guess con- 

 cerning the way in which these flints, as 

 well as the other pebbles, which seem'd 

 to contain sand and iron in their com- 

 position, were formed. May I not how- 

 ever, consider the circumstances and 







company in which they are found as 

 rather tending to strengthen my con- 



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