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!n the Fourth Part he treats of the Origine and For- 
mation of Metals and Minerals , and fliews that thefe 
werealldiffolved at the Deluge, as well as Stone, Marble; 
and the like ; and that all Metallick and Mineral Nodules 
whatever, both thofe which are in rude lumps, fuch as 
the comnnon Pyrites, Flints^ 4gat5, Onyxes, Teblles, Jaf 
pers, Cornelians^ and the like : and thofe w^hich are ol a 
more regular and obfervable (hape, fuch as the Sekni/es; 
Bekmnites, and Mineral Goral', were all amafs'd and for- 
med during the time- that the Water covered the Earth; 
and gives an Account of their Varieties, Mixtures^ Co- 
lours, "and Figures ; particularly of the Ores of Metals, 
Flint, Spar, Vitriol, and other Minerals that refemble the 
Shells of Echini, Conch^e, Cochhce, and other Shells; for 
which reafon they have been called EchinitaSy Conchita^ 
CochlitiBi Ihewing that thefe Bodies were formed and 
moulded in the Cavities of thofe Shells which they fa 
refemble, and by what means. That at the general Sub- 
fidence, Metals and Minerals, as well thofe which were 
thus amafs'd into lumps, as thofe which continued afun- 
der and in fingle Corpufcles, funk down to the bottom 
along with Sand, Coal, Marie, ^c, and fo were lodged 
in the Strata which the Sand,* t^c. conflituted. That all 
the Metallick and Mineral matter which is now found 
in theFifTures or Perpendicular Intervals of the Strata^ 
was Originally lodged in fingle Particles amongfl the 
Sand, ^c. in the Bodies of thofe having been de- 
tatch'd and drawn thence by little and little by the Wa- 
ter, which continually pervades the Strata in its palTage 
from the Abyfs to thofe FifTu res, and fo on to the furface 
of the Earth ; with an Account of the Minerals and Ores 
of Metals which lye in thefe Fifliires, and particularly of 
the formed ones, e. gr, of feveral forts of Stalailita^ 
the Iron- Rhombs, Tin-Grains, Mundick-Grains, Cryflal- 
lized Native Salt, AUom, Vitriol, and Sulptiur; as alfo 
the Gemms found here, as Cryflal, the Pfeud-adamants,' 
the 
