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Other forts of Shdl-filh love a Stony Gravelly Soil, 
others a Chalky Soil, others a Rocky Soil, others a 
. Lime-ftone, or Salt Soil. 
Others love an Oazey Soil, a fort of a confufed mix- 
tLire of all the foregoing, as part of the Country about 
Frod'wgham^ Brnmbee^ Jfibee^ Botfworth^ See, In this 
Country, and joyning in part upon this PariQi of 
Broiighton feems to be, in the Fields and Stones of 
vvdiich Towns is one particular fort ot Fifh, which I 
know not v^hat Genus or Species to compare to, bend- 
ing fome what like a Rams Horn, and exadtly'creas'd 
like one on the outfide , with an Opujculifm thereon, 
which the Fifh opened and (liut as it had occafion ^ a 
nioft elegant Specimen of which I have fent you. The 
Bed whereon the faid Siiell-fiih bred in the A?ttidiltivl' 
an Sea, is not over a foot thick (to the beft of my me- 
mory) in,all which, but for the moft part in the fuper- 
ficies thereof, are millions of the faid Fiih kicking half 
within the Stone half without, which Shell-fifh having 
a moft durable Shell, that part that fticks oat of the 
Stone, is not confumed, as in the Shell-fifli of 
touy hut remains whole and entire. - 
And yet for all that, this fort of Shelhfifh has.an ex- 
ceeding ftrong Shell, as hard as Stgrie itfelf. Yer J have 
feenand found whole rLumps of them, that by dome 
huge Weight caft or fallen upon them in the NoaMan 
Dwluge, have be-n mifcrably broken and fhactered in 
pieces, and fo Petrify 'd in the B^d a$;they lay 5 a f^j^- 
cimen of which I have fen|: tyc>u:. 
In the Parifli oi Brought:dn aforeCaid iji the loofe 
Earth above the aforefaid blue Qi-iarry, and elfewhere, 
I have found in a ^ whitilh Stone the Echini Galcati 
V^tmdticulati Lhijdii^tb^^Tnrbini tes Major ijuydii Tab, 
7. A^. 341. the Coclitef L^visVulgatiorLu'idiiT^j, 
in blue Stone, the Concki aUera Longa Ror^ddetii, ex- 
actly agreeing to the Picture and bigtiefs thereof in 
GefnQr 
