Of 0XF0%D^SM1%M. ' f; 
17. Now that Nature indeed proceeds in this method^ lam 
almoft: perfwadedby what I have found in Shotover- hill ^Sind elfe- 
1^'here near it t for within two beds next under the Ochre (nothing 
but a white Sand interceding) there lies another of a mucli reJ^ 
derhue^ which firfl receiving the fleams of the earthy is now in 
the way of becoming a ruddle^ and in procefs of time when it 
grows aduft^ may at laft make a change into a hlack. chalk * which 
I (hould not fo eafiiy have b^en induced to believ^, but that at 
Whately Towns end, near the foot of the hill, where lately foniie 
attempts were made for Coal^ they met with a vein of fuch kind 
of chalky which perhaps long before might have been nothing 
but ruddle^ and as long before that, a yelloxp Ochre. But whe-^ 
ther Nature proceed thus or no ; or fuppofe thefe are not (as 
fome have thought) the feveral gradations of the fame indivi- 
dual^ yet however, I fhall not be guilty of mif-placing, finceall 
three belong to the Fainter^ Trade. 
18. To which may be added a fort of tczruleum^ which in 
Englijh we may render native hlue^ becaufe naturally produced 
by the fteam of fome Mineral^ latent Under the afore-mentioned 
Marl 2X.B lands -Courts amongft w^hich it is found in very good 
plenty ; but yet fo thinly coating the little cavities of the earthy 
and fome other bodies (of which hereafter) co which it fticks^ 
that no quantities can be gotten for the Painters ufe, for whom 
it would otherwife be very fit, as upon tryal has been found by 
the worthy M*" Stonor. Kentmanfim ^ indeed tells us of a cine- 
reous fort Earth fomWhere neat Padua^th^t affords fuch a blue ; 
buti guefsthat ours cannot be (nor perhaps is that) theimmedi* 
ate produdion of the ambient Earthy but rather of fome mineral 
Of metal below it ; of which more at lafgc in a fitter place. 
19. Hither alfo may be referred a gritty fort of Z/;7z^er^,found 
in all parts of the County where there are Quarries of Stone : a 
courfer kind of them I met With near Witney^ and a fomwhat finer 
at Bladen Quarry ; thefe fomtimes are found in the feams of the 
Roch-, and fomtimes agairi in the body of thd Stone ; and not- 
withftanding their gritty f ex/// re , yet prove ufeful enough to 
drejfers of Leather. But yet a much finer than either of the for* 
hier, has been lately taken up at W^aterperry^ in the' ground, and 
near the Houfe of the Right Worftiipful Sir Tbomai Curfon^ of fo 
'K.intmcmds tents, ta^- 
