Aad thougli-ifl foin^ places they are but fprinkled here and 
there in the Rock^ yet there are whole heddi of Rockcf vaft 
cxteotywhlch are madeup for themoft part of thefe^and other 
figured Stonesr 5 mBivalv$^ Serpentina, Turbinate^ Sec. as at 
Br aught on. 
As fo the injuries they have received in their removal from 
the mtmflp&jiure^if doi place of their growth and fornjati- 
on^ they are'manifeft* For, befides their being all broken bo* 
dies, we.find macy of them depreffed and cruflied, as if the 
joyntof a hollow Gave ftiouldbe trod undeie. foot: Thefe 
Crulhes beibg aUo real Cracks as of a ftone or glafs. Agaih 
thcfe itones eorsfifting of many vemhrs or joyDtSjthey are ma- 
ny of them ftrangely diflocated | iometimes two, three, or 
tnore of the joynts in a Piece are flipped and out of order or 
raok^and fomctiroes a whole feries of joynts, as when a pack 
of Grown pieces leans obliquely upon aTable.FurtherjOtbers 
I have that are twiftcd like a Gord,if this poffibly may be rec- 
koned ambngft the injuries. Laftry, lbme have their joyntSjin- 
deedj even and in file, but are yet (luffed with a forraio siat- 
terras when bricks are lay cd in mortcr* 
There is great variety as to the thicknefs of the Trochiu ov 
fiogle joynts: fome arf/o thin, that they ^re fcarce the full 
of the a4^A.partof an inch > others are a full quarter of an 
inch thick 5 of thefe latter I only found at Stock*, Thefe^I fay, 
are the extrcain proportions, as far as my Obfervations have 
yet gone; there arc joyntsof all meafurcs betwixt tbofe two 
Extreams^ This is true in divers Pieces, for moftly the joy nts 
arc of an equal thicknefs in oneand the fame Piecc.Note,that 
there are flcndcr and fmail Enirochi or Piecesj which have as 
thick jbynts, as the biggeft and faireft Pieces. 
There is alfo fome difference in thefeamcs or clofiog of the 
joynts : Some are but feemingly joyctcd 5 which appears by 
this,that if they be eaten down a while in diftilled vinegar, 
the fecming Suturs will vaniflijas infome I had out of Stafford^ 
Jire^frora about Beresford upon the Dave : Others and aji here 
at Brighton and Stochj^xt really joynted, and the Sutures in» 
dented 5 which indentures being from the termioatiogohhe 
raycs,they are more fair or large^according to the differeDce 
of the rayes, but even,equal,3od regular^ 
