' ill grea t part blown off the Tor 1^ hire, Lincoln fhire. Suffolh^ 
ovEpx, and IQntiJh Woolds, and wrapt up upon their 
Coajls ; and the reafoh of this is partly from the more con- 
^2int Wejierly winds blowing over from our C^^^s^/?/ ; and 
alfo from the meeting of the two Tydes, vi^. that of 
the Channel .and that other of North Fload upon their 
Coafts, 
I am well aware, that the finding oi Cockles ov Shells, 
as moft writers are pleafed to call them, upon Mountains, 
and fand alfo there, is by the fame Herodotus ufed as an 
Argument of a great 2>^fo^^, or inundation of waters ; 
but as. I have elfewhere I think demonftrated, that the 
Kock'Cochlites are no Shells, io neither can I grant that the 
Smd was adventitious to the Mountains, but naturally 
originated there for that it is there plainly to be found, 
fome loofe, and the refl in Beds, yet unloofened i as 1 
could name very many places, foMnftance, Silden and 
Thorpe Fells in Craven^ this Mountain Sand is a white and 
tranfparent pebble, and fome of it is Imall and eafily 
fwept and blown away, fo is there much of it upon the 
high Mountains mixt with white pebbles of greater 
Size. 
'Tis the CharaBer of this fand, not to yeild to fire, as 
jF7/;2^ willdo ; and though it agree with that and fome 
other metalls, to ftrike fire from Steel, yet it does not cal- 
cine, as Flint will be brought to doe. And therefore this 
Sand is the true Tarfo of thQ Italian Mountains, of which 
the fine Venetian Glafs is made i and for this reafon, the 
Flint-Glajfes were here in England ill compounded, the 
Forreiners miftaking the materials, which yet our Coun- 
try affords in plenty, all over the Northern, and (I doubt 
not) the Wejierne mountains too: I have feen from the 
Scotch mountains very excellent and large. 
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