Partly. of the Bank ipt 



the common Ores of Metalls, Iron, 

 Tin, Lead, and the reft, as alio Spar, 

 Alum, Vitriol, Sulphur, and other 

 Minerals : as that which is difpofed 

 and formed into fome obfervable Fi- 

 gure, fuch as the metallick and mine- 

 ral Stala&iu^ the angulated or Cry- 

 ftallized Metalls and Minerals % and, ^^'^j/^J 

 to beftiort, all others whatever. '7 . 



That there is not, whatever fbme 7. 

 Men may have fancied, any thing very 

 ftr^nge or extraordinary in the Produ- 

 ftion of the faid formed Metalls and 

 Minerals, which are found in thefe In- 

 teryalls : nor other plaftick Vertue 

 concerned in fliaping them into thole 

 figures than meerly the Configurati- 

 ons of the Particles whereof they con- 

 fift , and the fimple Motion of the 

 Water to bring thofe Particles toge- 

 |:her. That particularly the common 

 StaUBiteSy Lapis StilUtitius^ or Drop- 

 ftpae, which confifts principally of 

 Spar, and is frequently found, in form 

 pi an Icycje, hanging down from the 

 tops and fides of Grotto's, and of the 

 lefler perpendicular Intervalls, was 

 formed by the Water which continu- 

 ally is Paffing through the Strata into 

 thefe tiieir |ai:er vails ; this taking the 



Sparry 



