Q ZOl ) 
Fig. 14. Petrlfi'd Dentalia and Cochlites found lying 
in the fame Bed, in the Rocky Mountains of Cala- 
hria, 
N. B. That UrMoiert Hooke publlfli'd fome Obferva- 
tions upon this Subjeft in his Micrographia^ p. 109, 110, 
111,112. and afterwards difcourftd of it at large in (eve- 
ral of his publick LecStures in Grejham College ( which 
the Publick have long expefted, and ftill defire from 
him ) before Steno, Scilla^ and Boccone^ communicated 
their curious Obfervations to the World. See Pblkfcpb, 
Tranfa^. N. 32. pag. (^i8. alfo N. jx. pog. 2186 to 
pag. 2190. SttM. Denh his Metnoirs am Conferences^ 
(printed with ihtfournaux des Scavans) An. 1672. 
Mem. I. Alfb the Italian Giormte di Literati Ephem, 5. 
of the fame year. See Dr. Hook's LeMure upon Springs 
pag. 48,49, 5:0. But above all, Juftice is to be done ta 
that Noble Natural Philofopher Fahius Columna, wha 
hath two admirable Difcour fes upon the feveral parts of 
Aquatick and Terreflrial Animals^ as alfo of Plants^ 
which he himfeif obftrv'd to be dug up in the Moun- 
tains of Andria^ and other Places ; and there- 
upon remarks how they were left there by the General- 
Flood; why in fome places they remain uncorrupted, in 
others wafted, and mouldred, in others only by their 
imprefled Figures, and exadJ: Forms. That they all an- 
fwer in every delineation, and every part the very B^?- 
dies they rctemble, and are truly the very fame Species. 
See Cohmna in his Ohferv, Aquat. & terreftr. Cap. 2r. 
P^g' 43 ^0 P3g- JJ- Al^o Purpara, Dijfertat. de Glof-. 
fopetrisi pag-3 i to pag 39. 4to Rome impreff, 1616. 
An. 
