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left in them, for any length of Time, 

 with a Stony Surface and others have a 

 Power of making an entire Change in the 

 Subftance of Wood, &c. giving it all the 

 Properties of Stone. In fome Places the 

 Earth effects the fame Thing on what- 

 ever is buried in it. 



In the two large Tables are a very 

 curious Colle(5lion of foffil Shells, figured 

 Foflils, natural and fimple FofTils, and 

 particularly of Minerals : I fliall not take 

 up much of the Reader's Time in mak- 

 ing any long Remarks on thefe Articles. 

 With refped to the figured Foflils and 

 fofiil Shells, I lhall treat of them more at 

 large, when I come to that Fart of the 

 Slcanian Colle6tion, as the foflil Shells 

 may there be compared with fuch as are 

 recent : as to the Minerals and fimple 

 Fofiils, they have already been noticed, 

 Page 80. 



In the firft Table I fiiall begin with a 

 few Remarks on the foffil Shells and fi- 

 gured Foflils, with which it is filled. 



F 3 Anomia, 



