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angues etiam, lacertos, ecliinos, stellas pisces, peetines, cochleas, ostreas, 

 conchas, chamas, mitulos, tellinas, turbines, pisciumque vertebras aut 

 spinas, necnon rostra avium aut aliorum animalium partes, dentes videl. 

 ungulas, vertebras, crania, et alia, tarn a natura quam arte petita, in inti- 

 mis seepe montium visceribus, aliisque profundis terrarum latebris, quo 

 nulla unquam gens, nullum unquam animal aliud facile penetrare posse 

 videtur, immo in mediis interdum marmorum, in nullas rimas liiantium, 

 corporibus, sive petrefacta jam, sive pristinam naturam utcumque servantia, 

 eatenus reperta esse, quatenus talia, ut verbo dixerim, voragine terras 

 fuerint obruta, sive occasione Diluvii, sive casu alio ; ibidemque per 

 plurimos annos subsisterint, donee destructa sensim obnoxia etiam reddita 

 Bigori Lapidifico, qui facile tandem supervenire ipsis potuit ob transsu- 

 dantes passim Salinos, per Terram Succos, baud aliter, atque in muris 

 antiquioribus Aquam nitrosam transudare, ipsamque in Stiria albas et 

 conos coagulari conspicimus," etc. 



Joh. Dan. Majoeis, Phil, et Med. D., ' Dissertatio Epistolica de 

 Cancris et Serpentibus Petrefactis, ad Don. D. Philippum Jacobum Sachs 

 a Lewenheimb. Medicum in Sep. Patria Yratislaviensi, cui accessit E,e- 

 sponsoria Dissertatio Historico-Medica ejusdem Philippi Jacobi Sachs a 

 Lewenheimb. Phil, et Med. D. et Collegii Naturae Curiosorum Collegae 

 de Miranda Lapidium Natura,' p. 38. — Jena?, 1664. 



Joh. Weil hard Yalvasor, in his ' Ehre Jes Herzogthums Crain' 

 (Lanbach, 1689), says, " JXear Landspreis, on the mountain, I dis- 

 covered in a ditch many sea-shells, -which had acquired a stony hard- 

 ness, or rather which were converted into stone ; also a bird's nest 

 together with a small bird sitting on eggs ; which all together was 

 transformed into hard stone by the lapidiferous spirit." 



"We extract the original passage from Theil 1 of this work, p. 478. 



" Bey Landspreis, uber dem Berge, bin ich in einem Graben auch vieler 

 Meer-Muscheln ansichtig geworden, die eine steinerne Hartigkeit ge- 

 wonnen, oder vielmehr die Stein -Art selbst angenommen ; ingleichen eines 

 Vogel-JNTestes, mit einem kleinem auf den Eyern sitzenden Yogel ; welches 

 alles miteinander der Stein-machende Spiritus zumharten Stein gemacht." 



Like all other books of its age, Peter Wolfart's ' Yale Hanoviss et 

 Salve Cassellse ' (1707) has a very long title,* and more of a dilettante 

 than a philosophic aspect. Medicinse Doctor Wolfart has, however, 

 something to say, and we will therefore let him say it in his own 

 words (p. 12, etc.). 



" § IY. In order to enable every and any one the better to under- 

 stand our figures, and to avoid confusion of them, we think it 

 advisable, for the interest of the work, not to notice obscure or futile 

 opinions about the origin of the specimens, — abundant as such 

 opinions are, according to the fertility of the genius of every writer, — 



* 'Vale Hanoviae et Salve Cassellrc dictum. Cujus Occasione Inventa qusedam 

 Hanoica utrisque Dilectissiniis suis Popnlaribus Communicare, se suaque Studia de 

 Meliori Commendare, atque prioribus benevolam sui memoriam relinquere voluit. Pe- 

 trus Wolfart, Med. Doct., iu Illustri Schola Patria Anatomia3 hactenus et Philoso- 

 phic Experimeutalis Professor, nee nou utriusque Hauovise Physicus Ordiuarius, nunc 

 vero Physicus Aulicus Hasso-Castellauus, cum ad Stationem suam novam capessendam, 

 Abitiouem paratet. Anno Christi, 1707, die IS Aprilis, Francfort ad Mcenum. 5 



