iU The Natural Bpj PartlY, 



commooly foond ambngft thefe, and 

 vulgarly called Sam^ being really no 

 other than very fmail Pebles 5 as may 

 appear to any one who jQiail carefully 

 exaoiine and obferve it, efpecially 

 with a good Mici ofcope. Thus like-, 

 wife we find Strata confifting almoft 

 entirely of Common Salt : others of 

 Ochre and others of feveral Metalls 

 and Minerals, Tin, Lead, Vitriol^ 

 Nitres and Sulphur, promifcuoufly^ 

 without any confiderable Intermixture 

 of coarfer Terreftrial Matter. 

 4» That the metallick and mineral 

 Matter, which is now found in the 

 perpendicular Intervalls of the Stratji^ 

 ^ was all of it originally , and at the 

 time of the Deluge, lodged in the 

 Bodies of thofc St rats : being inter- 

 fperfed or fcattered in (ingle Corput 

 cles, amongft the Sand, or other Mat- 

 ter, whereof the faid Strata mainly 

 confift. That it was educed thence, 

 and tranfmitted into thefe Intervalls, 

 fmce that time 5 the Intervalls them- 

 felves not exifting till the Strata were 

 formed, and the metallick and mine- 

 ral Matter a8:ually lodged in them 5 

 they being only Breaches of the Strat^^ 

 aad not made till the very conclofioji 



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