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angues etiam, lacertos, ecbinos. Stellas pisces, pectines, coclileas, ostreas, 
conclias, chamas, mitulos, tclliijas, turbines, pisciumque vertebras aut 
spinas, necnon rostra avium aut aliorum animalium partes, dentes videl. 
"ungulas, vertebras, crania, et alia, tarn a natura quam arte petita, in inti- 
mis ssepe montium visceribus, aliisque profuudis terrarum latebris, quo 
nulla unquam gens, nullum unquam animal aliud facile penetrare posse 
videtur, immo in mediis interdum marmorum, in nullas rimas biantium, 
corporibus, sive petrefacta jam, sive pristinam naturam utcumque servantia, 
eatenus reperta esse, quatenus talia, ut verbo dixerim, voragine terrse 
fuerint obruta, sive occasione Diluvii, sive casu alio ; ibidemque per 
plurimos annos subsisterint, donee destructa sensim obnoxia etiam reddita 
Eigori Lapidifico, qui facile tandem supervenire ipsis potuit ob transsu- 
dantes passim Salinos, per Ten-am Suocos, baud aliter, atque in muris 
antiquioribus Aquam nitrosam transudare, ipsanique in Stiria albas et 
conos coagulari conspicimus," etc. 
JoH. Dan. Majoeis, Phil, et Med. D., ' Dissertatio Epistolica de 
Cancris et Serpentibus Petrefactis, ad Don. D. Pbilippum Jacobum Sachs 
a Lewenheinib. Medicum in Eep. Patria Vratislaviensi, cui accessit Ke- 
sponsoria Dissertatio Historico-Medica ejusdem Philippi Jacobi Sachs a 
Lewenheimb. Phil, et Med. D. et Collegii jN^aturee Curiosorum Collegae 
de Miranda Lapidium IXatura,' p. 38. — Jena?, 1661.. 
Job. Weilhard Yalvasor, in his ' Ebre des Herzogthums Grain' 
(Lanbach, 1689), says, " ]S'ear Landspreis, on the mountain, I dis- 
covered in a ditch many sea-shells, which had acquired a stony hard- 
ness, or rather which were converted into stoiie ; also a lird's nest 
together with a small bird sitting on eggs ; which all together was 
transformed into hard stone by tiie lapidiferous spirit." 
We extract the original passage from Theil 1 of this work, p. 478. 
" Bey Landspreis, iiber dem Berge, bin ich in einem Graben auch vieler 
Meer-Muscheln ansichtig geworden, die eine steinerne Hartigkeit ge- 
wonnen, oder vielmehr die Stein-Art selbst angenommen ; ingleichen eines 
Togel-Ncstes, mit einem kleinem auf den Eyern sitzenden Vogel ; welches 
alies miteinander der Stein-machende »S^je>?Yz^5 zumharten Stein gemacht." 
Like all other books of its age, Peter Wolfart's ' A^ale Hanovise et 
Salve Cassellse ' (1707) has a very long title,* and more of a dilettante 
than a philosophic aspect. Mediciiiae Doctor AVolfart has, however, 
something to say, and we will therefore let him say it in his own 
words (p. 12, etc.). 
" § IV. In order to enable every and any one the better to under- 
stand our figures^ and to avoid confusion of them, we think it 
advisable, for the interest of the work, not to notice obscure or futile 
opinions about the origin of the specimens, — abundant as such 
opinions are, according to the fertility of the genius of every writer, — 
* 'Vale Hanoviae et Salve Cassellse dictum. Cujus Occasione Inverta qusedam 
Hanoica utrisque Dilectissimis suis Popularibus Cominuriicare, se suaque Studia de 
Meliori Commendare, atque prioribus beiievolam sui memoriam relinquere voluit. Pe- 
TRUS "WoLFAKT, Med. Doct., in lUustri Schola Patria Anatomiffi hactenus et Philoso- 
phiie Experimentalis Professor, ncc non utriusque Hanoviyc Phvsicus Ordinarius, nunc 
voio Physicus Aulicus Hasso-Castellanas, cum ad Statioiiem suam novam capessendam, 
Abitionem paratet. Anno Christi, 1707, die 18 Aprilis, Francfort ad Mceniim.' 
