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they themfelves had feen the fame body, wood, and 
ftone. But the only reafon for thinking fo, being the 
diverlity of colours which might well enough proceed 
from feverall degrees of petrification, we may proba- 
bly think them deceived for they made no experiments 
t>n that part which they reputed wood. They further 
told mc that part of the body which touched the furface 
of the water was the partition between the petrified and 
unpetrified part of it this further confirms me, they 
w^re impos'd on. This ftone had been often found one 
part ofit rotten and petrified, the other remaining firm 
andufefull; but this it hascommon with other ftones: 
whether it became rotten in the wood, or ftone, may be 
doubted. 
7. Whether the "QzYk has been feen petrified^ as well as 
the Wood? The i5^r>^ is never found petrified, as I am 
informed by a diligent Inquirer, but often fomething 
xotten about the ftone anfwerable to the Bar\ 
8 . Whether any one has certainly made experiment of the 
TLouglis petrifying, by putting a piece of wvodtherein^ and 
there letting it ly till it was petrified? Several pieces of 
Holly have been put into t\iQ Lough, but none, that j ever 
heard of, wasevertakenoutin any wife altered. 
9. Whether there be any Sand-pits nigh about ^/;^ Lough 
invohichthefe pieces of wood {we efieem petrified) are found f 
I never could hear of any inch Sand-pits, nor that this 
petrifying Vertue was ftronger in any foch places ; there 
is a greater quantity of thefe ftones found in the adja^ 
cent ground , and when ground is newly broke, ordi- 
narily turned up in plowing. 
10. Whether the Earth, or Sand about this Lough be 
induedwith this §^alitie> That this Virtue is certainly, if 
not only, in the ground or foil I judge for thefe reafons, 
that there are many ftones turned up daily efpecially at 
their breaking up new ground i which we cannot in any 
probabilitie think were brought thither j they are often 
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