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F/eeftode, the beft of them being (aid to be obnoxious to theft 
icaiatcs, which whea they chaqce toIy,wherc the iotendedla- 
psrfice of the Stone, when hewn, is to cue th^ body of them 
they being kdockt out^the Stone will need to be patch't,6r,i( 
that be not f aifible^the Stone will not ferve for the purpofe in. 
tended. 
1 5 »Toioquir6^hpwStonc$ groi^^whether by a kind of Viege. 
tatioBMt being afem'd by Ibmejthat af^cblc being put in a vial 
with water^fb as the ft one can cafily enter into it^though aJmoft 
tdaching theneckevery where asit enters^ it wiU^ within 12 
Months or fo, incrcafe in bulk fo much thait it cannot come 
out where it went in : As sTlfo^that Pebles and Flints ha ve been 
obicrvcd to jgrow fo faft in fome grounds, that all being taken 
away that can be feen noWj within a year or tvt^o there will be 
new ones found there ^ like the former^ 
1 6. Whether Beds of Sandy and Loamy roattcrjand the like 
do iaot in time harden into Stones 3? The Quarries about Pj- 
rii feem to favour the affirmative / And near MfnJ/kldin sber^e- 
wood^refi , where fbmc high wayes through landy grc^ods 
' are worn fome ^ or lofoot deepsthe faceson the badjs on ci- 
ther fide are faid tobe hardned into a ftrong cruft, which being 
broken off to the thicknefs of perhaps 8 or lO inches,gH witlh 
in is ftMl fand. Now it being- cxpofed to the Sun^ Wind and 
Haidjif feems not irrational to prcfome, the Surface thereof 
may be cafily hardned into Stone* Nay *tis notorious, that ia 
divers places in England, Scotland, France, water drop- 
ping through the Cranics of the aot)fsofGavesin rocks^^ocs 
in a Ihort fpace of time produce heaps of Stone, where it 
the particles of fandy and loamy Stuff,^ that are conveyed a 
f ]dDg in^tbe body of the dropping wa^^ 
gether, when the water is drained away from them* Such was 
there found in great ftore in a Gave near E«^<?« in Oxford- 
lmre,wherewas built afamdus G^^^^^ 
ToeDdeaVGuftoretrivethe Art of hardoit)gandtefliperidg 
Steel fbr^tdog of Porphyre^^^ which the Egyptians wei? 
mafters of^ of old, and after them the Greeks and Romans .• 
inlomuch that the neat and curio and carving of O. 
behsks, ^ColoflTe.^, Statues, Pots, Urns.as alfo Porphyre and 
oilier hard Marbles ; is now the Objca of admiration to the 
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