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it is indeed found in fome places lying 

 upon the Shores of the Sea, and of Ri- 

 vers: but 'tis alfb found at Land, and 

 dug up (fbmetimes at very great 

 depths ) in the Earth ; and this as well 

 in Places very remote from any Sea, or 

 River, as in thofe which are nearer 

 unto them. Thai 'tis digged out of 

 even the higheft Mountains, and in- 

 deed all other Parts of the Earth con- 

 tingently and indifferently, as the Py- 

 rm^ Agates, Jafpers, Pebles, and the 

 reft, are. That wherever *tis found 

 upon the Sea-Shores, there alfo is it as 

 certainly found at Land, up in the 

 neighbouring Country : and particu* 

 larly in Pru^a, upon whofe Shores fa 

 great a quantity of Amber is yearly 

 colIeded,'tis dug up almoft all over the 

 Country. That even that which now 

 lyes loofe upon the Sea-Shores, was all 

 of it originally lodged in the Earth : in 

 the ^'^r^r^ of Sand, Marie, Clay, and 

 the like, whereof the neighbouring 

 Land, and the Cliffs adjacent to thofe 

 Shores, do confift; and wherever tis 

 fb found fcattered upon the Shores, 

 there is it as conftantly found lodged in 

 the Cliffs thereabouts. That when the 

 Sea, at High- water , comes up unto, 



