The 5\[amral Hifiory 
places, I think I may fay of a bulbous nature, fevetal folds of 
divers colours and confiftencies, ftill including one another, not 
unlike the feveral coats of a Tulip root, or Onjon, 
The I . next the turf^ is a reddifh earth. 
2. a pah blue clay, , 
3. a yellow [and, 
4. a white clay* 
5 . an iron ftone. 
6. a white ^ and fomtimes a reddifh Maum. 
7. agreen^fat^oily kjndof clay, 
8. athin iron-coloured rubble, 
9. a green clay again. 
10. another iron rubble^ almofi like Smiths cinders. 
And then the yellow Ochre^ which is of two parts. 
1. The Jlone Ochre^ which we may alfocall native, be- 
caufe ready for ufe as foon as 'tis dug : and 
2. ClayOchre^ which becaufeof the natural inequality 
in its goodnefs, they wafh and fteep two or three 
days in water, and then beat it with clubs on a plank 
into thin broad cah^s^ of an equal mixture both of 
good and bad ; then they cut it into fquares like TileS, 
and put it on hurdles laid on treftles to dry, which 
when throughly done 'tis fit for the Merchant, 
15. Where perhaps by the way it may be worthy our notice, 
how different either the Ochres^ or opinions of men concerning 
them, are now, from what they formerly were : for whereas 
Diofcorides (as quoted by Wormius^') commends to our choice the 
lighteft earthy Ochre^ highly before the other of /lone: We on 
the contrary, and not without reafon, prefer the /lone Ochre as 
far before the clay. 
16, I was told of z yellow Ochre fomwhere between Duckjing^ 
lomnd Witney^ that ferves them thereabout for inferior ufes; 
and met with it befide at fome other places, but none fo good as 
this at Shotover ; that at Garfington being full of blue ftreaks, and 
afmall parcel (that was (hewn me) taken up about Pyrton inter- 
mixed a little too much with red, as if it were now in the tranf- 
mutation (fo much fpoke of by Naturalifts') by the earth and funs 
heat ; firft into Kubrick:, or Ruddle^ and thence at laft into pnigitis, 
O r el i e black, chalk,- * 01. Worma Mufaim. cap. 4. » Evcel. r« Metal, cap. 20- 
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