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nates with a Joint that's flat on the upper Side, and no 
way either Concave or Convex like all the reft below 
if. 
By what means thefe Stony Joints, fo Ponderous and 
Bulky, and Ibdiftinft and difcontinued Bodies from one 
another, fhould arrive at firft to this great Height, and 
reach the Summits of rhefe tall Colums where they now 
are placed, (eems a Problem oF that difficulty, thatfbme 
perhaps for its Solution may be apt to think they were 
co-aeval with the firft Creation, and ranged then in the 
fame Order they now ftand by the great Fiat that pro- 
duced the World. But it were eafy to give another Con- 
jeAure of this odd Appearance^ were I not better plea- 
ftd to obfirve and (et down the Hiftory of Nature as it 
truly is, than to amufe my felf and others by making 
vain and uncertain Guefles at the hidden Caufes of its 
fh^nomena. 
As to the internal Subftance of this Stone, 'tis of an 
extraordinary hard, clofe, and compa(3: Texture : its 
Greet or Grain fo very even and fine that it hardly ap- 
pears, unlefs viewed near the Eye, and when the Stone 
is newly broke; then it fhews its felf on its Surface like 
a very minute fmall glifning Sand thickly interfperfed 
with the reft of the folid ; which by reafon its parrs are 
fo firmly combined together, has fomethmg more of 
Gravity in Proportion to its Bulk, than moft other forts 
of Stone, unlelS fuch as partake of the Marchafite or 
PyriteSy and are more ponderous than ufua! fiom a 
Metalline Principle being an Ingredient in their Com- 
pofition ; of which this does not at all participate 
or at leaft not in any confiderable Quantity that I can 
difcover. 
It feems as as if it were one plain Homogenious Body, 
without any Mixture of Cochlite^ Belemnite, Veins of 
Spar J or fuch like extraneous Matter, fo commonly met 
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