Jlory, than to reduce Two Minerals fo vaftly different, 
to one and the fame Trih; whereas 1 find no Difa- 
greement that's confiderable between the Colums of 
the Bafaltes Mifenus and thofe of the Bafaltes Hiherni- 
cuiy but that the former are made of One entire Stone, 
which in the latter is divided into Joints ; and this I take 
as Grounds only (ufficient to conftitutc a bare fpecifick 
Difference, and no more. 
Georgius Agricola in his Book Je Natura FofiUum, 
Uk 7. Pag, 3x7. has a Paffage (and which I find con- 
firmed too, by a later Author living in that Counrry, 
Lachmand de FoffilihtUy (§c^) wherein he mentions a 
Cbrt of Marble found in the Deftridt of Hildefheim in 
Germany^ that feems to bear in feveral Refpeds, a great 
Analogy or Agreement with this Stone ot the Giant% 
Caufwayy becaufe they are but (horr, Til give you his 
own Words ; In Hildejheimo quoque e Regio^e Arcis 
Marteburgi Collis eft plenia Lapideis Tral thus, quar urn Ca- 
pita inter dum eminent^ funt vero perlongce acervatim pofit£ 
znque medio earum terra eft colore t^tgro^ ferro aut al- 
tera Lapide percujjk non aliter ac marmor Hildejheimum 
cQrnu ufti virus olent omninoque ex eadem Materii funt. 
He does not indeed tell us the precife Figure of thefe 
Marble Beams, yet it ftems probable at Jeaft chat (bme 
were Square, which makes him call them, t rales Lapi- 
iem. But however that might be, this I'm affured 
of from frequent Experiments, that the Marble of 
the Giant $ Caufway j like thefe Stony Beam^ when 
forcibly (truck with another Stone or a Bar of Iron, 
fends forth a ftrong offenfive Scent like Burnt 
Horn. 
But 
