Cm) 
Accidents of the place rather concurred to their Deftru- 
ftion than Generation. 
VIII. Asalfo pieces of Fiftulous Coral, which tho' 
they were broken in the TophiUy yet might be put to- 
gether juft as they were naturally joyned together in 
the Sea. 
I X. Together with fome of the Joynted Coral of Im- 
perati , which refembles the Shank-bones of Animals ; 
this alfo joynted right, tho' the pieces were found apart 
in the Tophiu. 
X. He compared fome of Echini Spinis longijfimis 
of Aldrovandusy with the Shells of thofe Echini found 
at Mefina^ and in Malta ; and he found them to agree 
exa<9:ly. He obferved the fame fituations and dimenfi- 
ens of the Mammillie, and the Spine% which turn upon 
them, as upon a Pivot ; and when broken, the fame 
Ligatures of every part of the Cruft, which covers the 
Animal. 
X I. He produces on.e Echinus, bruifed in the Tophus 
in which it lay, wherein after he had waflied off the 
tophaceous particles that it was filled with, he found 
feveral of the Spines that had formerly been upon the 
Crufl: As dfo^ Spatagusy with the Prickles on, which 
he found in a Valley in Calabria. 
He concludes at laft with taking notice, that all the 
Echini, or other Land- fhells, that he had found bruifed 
upon the Calabrian or Mefinefe Hills, or had been 
brought to him from Malta, were bruifed by a per- 
pendicular prefTure : This he explains thus ; The Crufl: 
of all Echini has two Centers, one diredly oppofite to 
theother^ (bthat if they hapned to lie in the liquid 
Mud, in fuch a manner, as that the loweft Center was 
perpendicular to the Horizon, they were bruifed, fo as 
not to lofe their circular Figure ; only they were much 
comprefTed. If they lay on one fide, they were fqueezed 
out of thatlhape, and the Membranes of the Ligatures 
parted 
