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JV. Of certain l>^&'i\ildxi^ or the true Lzpidcs ]uddi\ciy fer kind 
foundwithmin^Vi^iZiid. Fig.s* 
The Stones ca!l'dD/2J?/7iW^e/ zwdLapdes Judaici^ are brought 
over to us from beyond Seas in divers (hapes^and fome of them are 
d^fcribed in Authors. We have plenty of them for kmd in thcfe 
pares, as in the Stone-quarries at Kevpton near liemjley, and at Hel- 
lifsgley by Malton, There is fome variety in the figure of them here 
alfo;but the moft common one in thefe rocks is after the fafliion ofa 
Date-fione^comd and long,about an ineh^and fometime longer.They 
are a little fvvelled in the middle, and narrower towards each end ; 
They are channelled the length-way, and upon the ridges knotted 
or purled all over vviih fmall knots,fet in a quincunx- order. The in* 
ward fubftance is a white opaque Sparr, and breaks fmooth like a 
fiint;not at all hollow in the middle,as are the BeUmnites, 
V,Of the EleSiricat fewer of Stones in relation to a Vegetable Rojin. 
It fo hapned, that having occafion in July to view certain FoC- 
fils, which I had difpcs'd of into divers Drawers in a. Cabinet made 
of Barbados Cedar^l obferv'd many of the (tones to be thick- cover'd 
ever with a liquid Rofin like Venice Turpentine. Examining fur- 
therjthere was not a Drawer,wherein there was not fome more fome 
fewer ftones thusdrenched* 
That this could be no miftake, as from dropping, the bottoms of 
the Drawers are of Oak. Again,many ftones,which were lapped up 
in papers,were yet wholly infefled and cover'd with this Rofin.Be- 
fides, after diligent fearch there appeared no manner of exudation 
in any part of the Cabinet. 
Two things I thought very remarkable:!. That of the many forts 
of Scones I therein had, divers efcaped, butnotany ofthef/^«^4- 
m^j-kind; hdivlng thGrcln Manganes^SciJlcs,Eotryades^&cc. w hich 
were all deeply concern'd. 2. That amongft perhaps 500 pieces,of 
the Jjlroites here and there one or two in an appartmenr, and fome- 
times more, were feifed,and the reft dry^as it fares with people in the 
time of the Plague in one and the fame hgufe. I further obferved, 
that ftones of a foft and open grain, as well as thofcof a hard and 
poVifli (fuperficies^ w ere concerned in a manner alike. 
Tis certain, that the whole body of the Turpentine of the Ce- 
dar-wood was carried forth in'o the Air, and floating therein was 
again condenfcd into its own proper form upon thefe ftones. 
This niake^ it more than probable, that Odoriferous bodies emit 
and fpend tleir very fubftance. Thus Camphir is faid,if not well fe- 
cured, totally to fly away. Again^ic is hence evident, that there is 
greac 
