of 0 XFO 1iS>^S HI%M. ^ 
lefs noife than fait itfelf; zr\d.\n wanr^ after a qukk and Tub- 
tile folution, leaves behind it a Mnd of brackifli tait, which I 
thought might proceed from a fort of F/>ric./, and perhaps true 
enough, though the water would not tinge with powder of galls t 
it takes greafe out of cloaths extreamly well, . and would it but 
whiten, 2S Fullers earth doth^ I fhould not doubt to pronounce 
it the fame with the viridis Saponaria^ found near Beichling in 
Thurinjia^ and mentioned by Kentmannm in his colleftion of 
Fofffh ^4 This we have in great plenty in Shot -over Foreftf where 
'tis always met with before they come to the Ochre^ from which 
it i^ feparated but by a thin Iron cruft^ and may peradventure be 
as ftrickt a concomitant of yellow Ochre^ as Chryjocolla (anothef 
green Earth) is faid to be of (7o/</. At prefent 'tis accounted, 
of fmall or no value, butin recompence of the fignal favors of 
its prefent Prq/'nV^or, the Right WorOiipful Sir Timothy Tyrril^ 
who in perfon was pleafed to (liew me the pits^ I am ready to 
difcover a ufe it may have, that may poffibly equal that of his 
Ochre. Which brings me next to treat of fuch Earths as are 
found in Oxford-fiire^ and are ufefulin Trades. 
13. And amongft thefe the Ochre of ShQtover^ no doubt, may 
challenge a principal place, it being accounted the beft in its kind 
in the world, of a yellow colour and very weighty, much ufed 
by Painters fimply of it felf, and ag often mix'd with the reft of 
their colours. This by FUny % Snd the Latines^ was anciently 
called Sil^ which we have now changed for che modern word 
Ochra^ taken up as forne think from the colour of ftie Earthy and 
the Greek word Pallidum ; or as others, and they perhaps 
more rightly, from the River Ochrathzttims through Brunfmck:, 
whofe Banks do yield great quantities of it ^ ; and from whence 
in all likelyhood we received the name, upon the arrival of the 
Angles^nd Saxons in Britdri, - ' V ' ' ' ' 
14. They dig it now at Shotover on the eaft fide of the /////, 
on the right hand of the way leading from Oxford to Whately^ 
though queftionlefs it may be had in many other parts of it ; The 
vein dips from Faft to We§l^ and lies from feven to thirty feet 
in depth, and between two and fevcn inches thick ; enwrapped 
it is within ten folds of Earthy all which muft be paft through 
before they come at it • foft the Earth is here, as at moft other 
ifi Cap. I. Detenu, * P//». Nat. HiSi. Uh. 33. cap. 12. Enselm de re Mstal. lib, z^jap- 20. 
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