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But to return to our Giants Caufway nothing among 
all the Foffil Tribe that I have feen or read of, comes 
fb nigh in ail refpefts, in its Formation, Subftance, Size, 
Vv^ay of Growth, or manner of Standing, to the 
Columns whereof 'tis compofed, as the Lapis Bafaltes 
MifenuSj defcribed by Kentmannm in Gefner de Figuris 
Lapidum^ from whence Eoettus take$ bodi his Figure 
and Deicription, whereof he fays there is a great large 
Bed within three Miles of Drefden. in Saxony : He gives 
the fallowing Account of it thus in his own words. — 
Laptdes angulofi plures coagmentati ?izk\im repr^fentant^ 
qui crefcit forma & craffitudifie tigni mediocris^ fingula^ 
ris quidemjed copiofus.atque ita juntliu coaptatufque^veluti 
ah Arcularto arte commtffus ejfet ; feptem^fex.quinque.^non' 
nunquam fed rarim quatuor Anguloxum,: Omnino fgura 
traits e retire:, for is lieviSy & tatlu ifMinime afper^ ferru' 
gineus^ ponderofus^ duritte velut adamantis ; Hi Laptdes 
fic coagmentati e terra ulnas decern feptem exjiant \ 
quanta fpatio intr^ terram condantur^ nemini adhuc ex- 
ploratum ejl, T\\\xs hx Kentmannm \ who could fcarce 
in fo m*any words have better defcribed the Coltedioa 
of Pillars, that make the C^^^/^ a$ if he had 
feen them on the pLue ; Oaly I find this differe/jce be* 
tvveen them aixl tlie Mifnean Eafaltes, that its Columns 
were one entire Piece from top to bottom, and feme of 
them four-fquared • wh^YQ^LS our Irijb Bafaltes is corr-- 
poled of Columns, whereof none^ are ibur-iquared, and 
all of them divided into many Joynts. So that J think 
it may not improperly be called, to difl:ingui(li it fromi 
this and all ocher Foffils, 
Lapis Bafaltes vel Bajanos maximus Hthernicus^ an^^ 
gull 5 minimum qutnque plurimum feptem conjlans ; crehris 
articdis fihi tnvicern affaire conjuntt is ^ fed facili fepara^ 
hilthus^ geniculatiu. 
Whetiier our Irifh Bafaltes can pretend to the Name 
Bafanos on the (ame account the Mifnean does, from the 
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