254 Of Animal Bodies petrify d. Part III. 
On the other fide : although Nature cannot be faid to 
imitate Art : yet it may fall out, that the effects of both 
may have fome likenefs.Thofe white Concretions which the 
Italians, from the place where they are found, call Confetti 
de Tibuli, are fometimes fo like round Confers, and the 
rough kind of Sugar 'd- Almond '?,that by the eye they cannot 
be dil tinguifh'd. To call thefe Petrify d Sugar-Plums, were 
fenfelefs. What if we find in fome Stones underground 
the likenefs of a Crofs ? Doth not Sal Ammo?iiac often fhoot 
into millions of little ones ? Or do we find in other Stones 
the refemblance of Plants S Why not naturally there, as 
well as, in Frofty Weather, upon Glafs Windows ? Or as 
) Rdig. Salts fometimes figure themfelvcs (as Sir Th. Brown, {a) and 
Phil. Dr. Daniel Cox (b) obferve) into fome likenefs to the 
anf. n. plants whereof they are made. Nay, why not too, a Face, 
or other Animal Form ? Since we fee that there are divers 
Palm-Nuts which have the like. That the Volatile Salt of 
Harts-Horn , will fhoot it felf into the likenefs of little 
branched Horns. That of Flefh or Blood, into the fhape 
of little flat fibrous Te?ido?is or Mufcles, as I have often 
obferv'd. And though I have not feen it my felf, yet I have 
) &>Tho : been told by one (c) that doth not ufe tophancy things, 
" in& " that the Volatile Salt of Vipers, will figure it felf into the 
femblance of little Vipers. But there can be no convincing 
Argument given, why the Salts of Plants, or Animal Bodies, 
waihed down with Rains , and lodged under ground ; 
fliould not there be difpofed into fuch like figures, as well as 
above it ? Probably,in fome cafes,much better, as in a colder 
place 3 and where therefore the Work not being done in a 
hurry, but more flowly, may be fo much the more regu- 
lar. I fhall now come to the Particulars, and leave the 
Reader to judge of them. 
Part of the Upper JAW of a ftrange HEAD, toge- 
ther with fome fragments of other Bones, and three very 
Great Double TEETH,or Grinders,all fuppofed to be of the 
fame Animal. Found, about twelve years fince, feventeen 
feet under Ground, in Chartham a Village three miles from 
Canterbury. The Ground within twelve Rods of the River 
running thither, and fo to Sandwich-Wwtn. An Account 
hereof is written by Mr. William Somner : yet without a 
Defcription of the Jaw. But ftjppofing it to be part of 
