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to this fliape on purpofe to try the Experiments I am induced to 
beUeve on thefe accounts, firft no Tree grows in the fhape of 
a FaraUele fifed 5 and that this is not a Stone appears from the in- 
ward texture, differing fo much from the outward coat, and 
from the fmoothnefs of the outward coat, and ruffnefs in- 
wardly, which fmoothnefs could never be induced fince it 
was a Stone^ for if you grind it) fo as in the leafl to wear oli 
the outward black coat, the rough white infide ihews it felf 
immediately. 
4 What the Learned Phylician Anfdm Boetius ^.S^vts m his 
HiBor.a laptdum & Gemmarum is Certainly falfc, '^^^^* That that 
parr of the Wood that is buried in the Mud will become Iron^ 
that part toiich'd by the iVater becomes ^ton^^ and that above 
the Water remains Wood^ for I never have feen or could hear ^ 
of any part of the Stone in the leaft refembhng Inn. -M 
y. I have ufed fome endeavours to procure a piece of this ■ 
Lough Neagh ftone to v/]\\c\i the ^^^^^'^ Was yet faft'ned, but I ne-^ 
ver could attain it, tho fome afTert they have feen pieces 2 
or 3 foot long with about 8 or 10 inches of siGne and the reft , 
Wood, Tho I am apt to believe this may be flretching the I 
matter too far, for I conceive that that Humour that Fetnfijs ■ 
one part, when it begins to operate, inlinuates it felf foon 
throughout the whole body. 
6. TTis obferved that this ^etrifytng Quality is not equally dif- I 
fufed throughout the whole Lough (which is about 1 5" or i <^ j 
miles long, and 8 or 9 miles broad in all places) but is moft ' 
ftrong about that part where the black Water (a River fo call'd) 
empty's it felf into this Lough, that is about the Southwefi Cor- 
ner ; as likewife 'tis faid to be more ftrong about the Edges 
of the Lough, then further into the ^ater. 
7. It was queried a while ago by an Ingenious and Learn- 
ed Member of the Royal S. Mr. Hally, whether Lough Neagh si one 
were not Magnetical, for he was told it was i but upon tryal I 
find it is not, for it will not ftir a Needle, or Steel filings, neither 
will it apply to the Magnet \x\. powder or calcined. 
This is all that offers it felf at prefent relating to the Query 
of th^o xford Society, if any thing more occur, they lliall be in- 
formed thereof by 
Their moft Obliged 
Humble Servant 
William Molyneux. 
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