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Earth, that lyes under tliem, to cement and lay ih^ 
Stones of the 2d Q-urry in, of which they build their 
Walls and Fences, in which Clayie Subftance, or 
Earth, are innumerable fragnjentsof the Shells of Shell* 
fiili of various forts, of Pectinites, Echini, Conchites, 
and others, with foaie bits and peices of Coral branch- 
ed hke that in the Ingenious Mr Lltvjd's Ichnograph. 
Tab. 3. No. 94. bur that which is moreobfervable, is^ 
that here are fometimes found whole Sheil-filh, with 
their Natural Shells on, in their Natural Colours, moft 
miferably crack'd, bruis'd, and broken, and fome to- 
tally fqueez'd fiat by the great weight of Earth that 
yet lies, and that was caft upon them in the NoachUn 
Deluge ^ fome Specimens of which I have here fent in 
the little Box. 
The other Quarry is in the Field on the South fide 
of the Town : It. is a hard blue Stone, which in the 
Antidihivim World was mo(f certainly a pure fine blue 
Clay, in the Stones of moll: of which are innumerable 
petrify*d Shell- filli of various lorts, butfo united to the 
Stone, that it is very difficult to get 'them whole out, , 
and I have always found that they lye in the faperfi- 
cies of the Quarry, w ithin a foot of the top thereof, 
and few or none deeper therein. That which is ex- 
ceeding obfervable is, that in many places of the Surface 
of the laid Quarry, (which looks ruggqd and drifted, as 
Snow dees alter a ftorm, and by which one may find 
what Quarter the Storm or Wind was then in) chere are 
many Shell-fifli half in the Stone, half out, juft as we 
fee in Rivers and Ponds, that are dry, they will lye 
half within the Mud, half without. That part which 
is within the Quarry is entire and whole, but a hard 
Stone, and that pare which is without, which the Pe- 
trific Effluviums did not touch, isconfumed and gone, 
all but a little of the edges, about the thicknefs of a 
Barley-Corn, which edges are plain Shell, and have all 
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