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be made, from the Originals, which are faid to be now 
in the Repofitory of Grefham College : It would not be 
amifs to give us a Copy of them, in your TranfadionSe 
Which, would help to determine that Point in Queftion. 
I obferve, that the River in Ejjex^ and that in Kent^ 
( near which the Bones were found,) are (both of them) 
named tht Stowr- Which, wh^her it be a corruption 
of the Latin JEftuarium (as Mr Somner conjeftures ^ 3 or, 
of the '^tiiiOi ys'dvpr ( that is, the Water, ) I will not 
dilpute. 
And, That the Bpnes were found ( in both places ) 
much at the fame Depths ( about i 6 or 17 foot, under 
tthe furface of the Earth 3) which therefore may (pro- 
bably ) have been lodged Cin both places ) much about 
the fame Time: And, perhaps, when the Emperor C/^/^- 
dm brought his Elephants into Kent and Ejjex 5 As 
Mr hnffk^n intimates out of Hio Cajfius. 
I obferve alfo, that thofe Petrified Bones, in both 
places, were found in Gravelly grounds , (as are thofe 
Petrified Shells, and Bodies of Fifties, in Gravel Pits and 
Stone Quarries, near Qxford. ) How far the Steams, 
Fumes, or Fluors of. the Earth, which contribute to the 
formation of Stone or Gravel, may conduce to the Pe- 
trifying of thefe Bones, Shells, or other Bodies 5 I leave 
to the confideration of inquifitive Naturalifts. 
And, Whether the Impregnation of fuch Steam, may 
not Swell fuch Petrified Bodies, to a larger Proportion 
than before they had. Like as we obferve Wood ^and 
other like Materials J in a Moift Air, to Swell ^ by the 
Diftention of their Pores, upon the intromifSonof Moift 
Particles. For I take all Petrifications to be made, either 
by Incruftation, or Intromijjlon of Stony Particles. 
And I weil remember, that f many years ago) at Mol- 
dafh in Ke^H, (not far from Fcverfiam") on feme High 
Grounds, and very Stony, (which ufed to be, fonietimes 
Pafture, and fometigies Plowed, J I have obferved di- 
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