siand aSpecme^x^lt^iit it may be better ciramiri^d by more 
skilful Naturalifts. 
a. There isanoihcr Mineral Juyccin thefe parts of 
IWj which 1 have much inquirM after , and have longed to 
fee 5 and now I am likely to be faiisfied^as you may think by ' 
Mr- Jefops words; Captain lFaw,(^{mh he)a dtligm and know- 
ing perfon in Mines, gave me a White Liquor ^ refembling Cream 
both in colour andconfiftence^whicb he found in great quantities 
at the bottom of a Coal-pit^ 49 yardis deep, which Irefervefor you. 
But thisis notall ttieiDformatioa that hath been given mc? a* 
bout this White Liquor* Mr* George Planton^ a curious and ve- 
ry intelligent perfon, writes thus to me from Sheriff Haies in 
Shrop(hirc : Ijhall trouble you with an Obfervation^ I lately met 
with in our Iron-mines y ejpecially that which the Country people 
here call the'Whhc Miney which yields the heSi Iron-iione, The 
Miners do commonly ^upon the breaking of a Stone^ meet with a 
great quantity of a whitijh milk^ Liquor ^inchfed in the Center of 
it ithey fometimes find a Hogshead contained in one cavity,* tis in 
taflefweetijh 5 only it hath a Vitriolick^ and Iron^ltkfi twapjg with 
it. 
So far Mr^Lz/Zer and his friends, from whofe geoeroficy we 
have received a parcel of each of thefe Tub Aanccs for fur- 
ther cxaminatioo* 
JiDefcription of certain stones figured like flants^ and hy [ewe 
Obferving men eiieemed to be Plants petrified : Commumcated 
to the Puhli/her by the fame MrlMtr^from York Nove^f^b.^i h* 
1673. 
IN this paper I fcad you 20 Account of fome of the Parts 
of certain Stoner figured like Plants % which Agricola (5* 
FoJfilium^cMs Trochit£^znd the compound ones Entrochi 5 we 
in Engiiflij St* Cutberds beads, 
Agricola will have them akiofor fubftanceto the Lapides 
Judaicii, and, indeed^ thefe are of an opaque and darkco- 
loured Sparr 5 though 1 have of them from lome parts ot Eng- 
land of a white Sparr or Cawk? , as our Miners call it : They 
all break like Flintj poliflitd and fliioiag* 
Put intoVintgn (faith he) they buble ; Ati^m etiam repe^ 
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