82 Tie Production and Generation 



with glitter, appearing but very lately, is a 

 plain inftance •, and as experience fhews, that ma- 

 ny things carried off and buried by the deluge 

 have retained the nature of their refpective king- 

 doms undeltroyed : tho' the bodies of vegetables, 

 in particular, are of fo watry and changeable 

 a mixtion and texture as to be incapable of any 

 length of duration, they turning either to earth 

 and afh or ftone, and thus either degenerating or 

 improving-, yet in many places they have pre- 

 ferved themfelves from corruption : and bones and 

 (hells have undergone a kind of calcination, and 

 wood a hard exficcation. I have, however, had 

 famples, clearly exhibiting parts of animals, in their 

 unpetrified form and mixtion, fuffering pyrites to 

 grow upon them, and thus rendered fufceptible of 

 the action of a mineral weathering or damp ; nay 

 even more fo than in vegetables. 



Tho 5 we might well poftpone this article to the 

 -following paragraph, where it will appear, how 

 the, pyrites? without any action of a deluge, may 

 be mppofed to be generated barely by length of 

 time, and is fo at prefent, to fay nothing of en- 

 tire large veins-, tho' there is a great deal of 

 room to think, that all of them are not abfolutely 

 referable to the creation, as to their origin, but that 

 here and there, amidft the never- ceafing, violent 

 working of the huge mafs, there muft needs have 

 happened large waitings of ores, and fpringing or 

 fplitting afunder of whole rocks, and that thefe 

 (till happening, may be attended with new pro- 

 ductions, in order to the filling up thefe rents or 

 gaps : yet having already real testimonies enough 

 to verify the opinion of the new production of ore, 

 it would be needlefs to call poflibilities in aid. In 

 the firfb place, (inter is found with its glitter and 

 pyrites upon it, not only in fome old mines at Fri- 

 berg, but alio in various places, in caves, and even 



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