3 20 The Natural Hi flory Part lVJ 



and bears hard upon, the faid CIifl% 

 and is agitated by Winds and Storms^ ' 

 it frequently beats down huge pieces o| 

 Earth from thenfi ; which Earth, fallf 

 ing into the Water, is, by its continu^ 

 ed Agitation and Motion diflblvedjj^ 

 and borne by degrees down into thd^ 

 Sea, being loofe, and light, and fb ea-l 

 fily reduced into lefler Parcels, dillbl^ 

 ved, and wafti'd away : but the Pebles|* 

 Vyritdt, Amber, or other like Nodules^ 

 which happened to be repofed in thofef^^ 

 Cliffs, amongft the Earth fb beaten* 

 down, being hard, and not fb diflblu-^ 

 b!e, and likewife more bulky and pon-^ 

 derous, are left behind upon theShoreSj^J 

 being impeded, and fecured, by thatrf 

 their bulk and weight, from bein^ 

 born along with the Terreftrial Matter * 

 into the Sea* That therefore the Sea^ 

 is no ways concerned in the Formation! 

 of thefe Bodies : no more in the For- * 

 mation of Amber, than of the Vyrit^^ 

 Flints, and other mineral Malles thac'^ 

 are found together with it: but only"'^ 

 diflodges and difcovers them, bearsi| 

 away the Earth wherein they were bu- 

 ried, wallies off the Soil and Sordes^ 

 wherein they were involved and con- 

 Cfaledj and thereby renders them more 

 ^ confpi- 



