La *z/ana fpectdatiom difing/tnnata dal fenfo : L^t* 
tera RifponJz7/a circa i Corpi Mariniy che Pe- 
tnjicati ft troz/ano in ^*arij Luoghi Terrejiri. 
Di Agojiino S cilia Pittore Academico della 
Fncina^ in Napoli^ 1670. 4 to. 
With fhoYt Notes^ by a Telloro of the Royal 
Society. 
IT will not, I fuppofe, be wondred at, that a Bock 
which has been (o long printed, (hould now be 
taken notice of in thele Trantad:ions, fince it ap- 
pears to be fo Httle known, even by thofe who 
have written upon the felf-fame Argument, that fome 
late Writers who feem to have omitted nothing that 
Nature and Books could help them to, to carry on their 
Work, feem never to have feen it. Otherwile in all 
.probability they would have nam.ed this Author,among 
thofe who have taken pains to prove, that the Shells, or 
Stonesin likenefs of Shells which are found up and down 
upon the Surface, and in Hills and Quarries of the Earth, 
were once real coverings ofinclofed Fillies, or have been 
formed in thofe Shels which were inilead of Molds to 
the liquid matter that got in after the Fifhes w^ere con- 
fumed. This Signior SciQa has not only taken pains to 
prove, but has brought more Arguments in praof of it, 
than had been brought by thofe that appeared upon that 
A Subject before him. 
His way of Writing lliews little x^rt, and lefiLearn-» 
ingjWhich he owns himieif a Stranger (o, being by Prc- 
feflion a Painter of Mejfmay who delighted much in de- 
figning and painting all Rarities of Nature which were 
F f brought 
