But be that matter as it will, I ehink its time to put 
an end to a Letter, that's already grown much longer 
then was defign'd ; I fliall therefore add no more con- 
cerning thefe Shells, being unwilling to burn my Fin- 
gers with tharintricateand perplextqueftion, What they 
are > All that I fhall fay oi this matter fliall be ooJy 
this ; If they be real Shells, their being found in fuch 
-different parts of the World, and at fuch great diftance 
from any Sea, may ferve for a fair and convincing Ar- 
gument of theUniverfality of the Deluge. And if they 
be not Shells , but only ftones form'd by (what fome 
People call) Fanciful and (porting Nature , we may at 
leaft conclude thus much from it, That fince even thefe 
Lufus Maturity thefe Freaks , and random ftrokes of Na« 
ture, have not only a Beauty, but a real ufe, that no- 
thing in Nature is made in vain : And that many other 
Foffils that we now contemn as toys and trifles, fit 00« 
ly for furnifhing out a Mufeum^ may have other remar- 
kable Virtues, that may in time bring even them to be 
taken notice of, and valu'd, as well as the long negleded 
and defpis'd Ofiracites. 
The Doftors Remark. 
N B. The Golden Colour is from its leing a Pyrites, 
that is Iron /lone. Again, All the Gonchit^ k^nd^ 
lut more particularly the BelemnitiE & lapides Ju- 
daici, were knom to the Antients forSpecificks in 
Gravel. * 
V. An 
