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The Method, obferved by our Author in this County, and 
doubtlefs to be obferved by him inotherSjiSjthat heconfiders, 
1. Natural things, fuch as Nature either hath retained the fame 
from the beginning, or freely produces in her ordinary courfe, 
as Animals, Plants, and the univerfal Furniture of the World. 
2. l^diiurts Extravagances dud Defeifs , occafioned either by 
the Exuberancy of matter, or Obftinacy of impediments, as in 
Monjlers, 3. As Nature is reftrain'dj forced, falhiond, or de- 
termined by Jr/z^f/^/ Operations. 
More particularly he obferveth what is remarkable in the 
Heavens and Air,ia Waters,in Earths,Sands,Clays,Stones : A- 
gain^ in Trees and Plants, where he difcovers feveral, unknown 
before at the Oxonian Phyfick- garden, and others not ordina- 
rily found in this County ; together with divers unufual grains 
Town in the fame. Moreover, in Animals,with things uncommon, 
attending them. To all which he fub^oyns many things of Art, 
he met with in this Country. 
To give the Reader, out of this curious and vaft ColIeQiOD5a 
few Samples ; I fiiall take notice,of an Echo,repeating diftinft^ 
ly i7fy]lab]esin the day time, and twenty in the night, in 
Wocdftock'park** Of Petrifying waters at North- Ajbton^Sommer- 
ton.drc^ Of a fort of Sand, which whenwafhed and duly or- 
der'd, is fold by retail at 20 fliillings a Buftiel, zi Kingham : 
Of excellent Fire- and Weather- (tones, at Teynton and Borton : 
Of Marble,at Bletchington : Of Lapdes Judaici^n Hedaington: 
Of two forts of Pear-trees , bearing twice a year, the one at 
StanUkey ca I Td the Hundred pound pear, theother at jL^/rA- 
/ir^jCalledthePearof Paradife: Of arath-ripe EarlejSo^^d 
and returned again into the Barn in two months time, fetched 
from Patney in Wiltjhire : Of a great fpreading Oak , from 
boughs end to boughs end 108 feet; under the ftadow of 
whicb,43©o men may fufRciently be ftelter'd : Of a great Old 
Elm in eJ?^fag<^4/^;;- Col ledge Grove, barked quite round for 
many years,and pithlefs, yet lives ; and of another great Elm 
having three Trunks, iffued out of one root ^ in St- John Baft. 
Colledge in Oxford: Of a white Linnet, ztDeddington: Of 
two Salmons, the one fomcthing above , the other fomething 
under, a yard in length, catch'c ina fmall Brook that a man may 
eafily ftep over, not above one furlong from the Spricg-head, 
about 200 miles from the Rivers mouth, at Lillington-Lovel: 
Of I 
