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M the E«g/{/^ name *^)(o thtfe hoHows are fomttimes filled 
with carthjand iotnetimcs an other Entrochos is inclofed like 
a pair of fcrews^ and which is (as it were) pith to the other*. ^ 
Of thefe inward Entrochi focne I have which are tranfpareQt. 
f^Qte^ihzx the hollows or piths arc of different bores,but moft 
are round^And yet,there arc of them in great plenty at sucl{^ 
whofe hollow in the^ttddie isin the elegant falhion of a 
quefoil j and the rayes of the joynts of th^k Entrochi are touch 
deeper and fewer in nun3ber,than of any other yet obferved 
by me, Thefe alfo are fmooth-joyntcd^This is moft fur.prifmgj 
and I know not any Vegetable, whofe Pith is perforate in fuch 
J manner. 
Laftly we in thefc^ Rocks find certain r»flfe«9lm^,of the big- 
nels of Walnuts, which have many imprcllions oftrochHaup- 
onthem,as though they had bcenthe roots of them^And when 
thefe have been alittlecleanfed in Vinegar, thefe imprcflions 
appear more than cafual ; for^the fubftance that covers them 
fif not the Stones themfelves) is Sparr, and the impreitions 
are round holes with rayes, like th^ife holes, which we faid a- 
bove the Branches made in the fides of the fiock, when bro- 
ken out from th€m, Jgricola makes mention of thefe alfo : 
pemmero lapis ioformis nperifur una mm trochite ^ Entrocho^ 
RoU infe cmtinensfiguram*^ quce in eo qm[t qncedam radix, Ira- 
chitis jam abrupiis^ remanpt^ 
Although there are indeed ccx%^\^ l^pi4es informs^ which 
may withfome colour be thought to have been the Roots, 
from whence fome Entrochi have been brokeojyet are not all 
fuch lumpspf StOQe5on which wedifecrn the Vejiigia of EH" 
trothixohecdAlQdlapides infarmes.hm^ of them being moft 
elegantly figured. Oneor two of them^ which I found intire 
and copapleac at ^^(j^'^s amongft very many others flrangely 
fhattered and dcfdced, I (hall defcribe to you, 
T . The firft is io the fafhion of a Pirie Apple or Cone,with a 
hollow bottom^ about thehalf of an inch deep, and as much 
over at the battom:Oa the very Top is the round figure of aa 
Entrochos broken ofTjround about the bottom or bafis are ftVe 
fiogle feet at equal dirtaoces, io the figure of Crefccnts, This 
Stooe is incrujiaie or made up of angular Places 5 vi%, the bot- 
tom is coropofed of five plates, which we call Feet j the mid- 
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