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boilt FMock. and Nuneham-Courtney \ I found them alfo in the 
way between Nexp-yate^nd EnJJjam^ but none comparable to what 
was Oiewn me by that great Firtuofo^ the Right Worftiipful Sir 
Anthony Cope of Hanwell^ the moft eminent Artift and Naturalist 
while heliv^ed, if not England^ moft certainly of this County^ 
whole Houfe me thought feemed to be the real New Atlanth^ 
which my Lord Vifcount Vtrulam had only in fanfie. The Pebhk 
I remember was about the breadth of ones hand, of a flat form, 
and yet not much lefs than an inch in thicknefs, fo clear and pel- 
lucid, that no Chryjlal that ever I favy yet exceir d it ; fo that had 
not its Mafitr^ the cautious Artift^ took care to leave on it part 
of its outward coat, few would have believed it had ever been a 
Pebl?k, 
17. Thde Pebbles when trdn/parent, make an excellent ingre- 
dient for the GlaJl'VPorks ; and fo do thofe which are^-tojthough 
not tranfj?arent^ called by fome Authors by the name of Quocoli^ 
and perhaps not much different in nature from the Cuogolo of 
Ferrante Imperato and fuch are the Pebbles gathered at Tefino 
with which they make the pureft Glafs at the Moran. 
1 8 . There are about Goreing and Nunebam-Courtney^ a fort of 
Pebbles of a blue-black, colour, that if polifliM, might fupply 
the place of Touch. And about Fawler and Stunsfield are a red- 
diflikind, very hard, and for the moft part of an oval Figure, 
fo excellent for pitching of ftreets and fiables^ and for Painters 
mullars^ that none can be found more fit and durable. 
19. After confideration of Flints and Pebbles apart, let 
us now take a view of them jointly together, for fo I found 
them at Caverfiam-, and Greenvtl^ and in the way from Pufiill 
to Stonor-houfe^ in clutters together of divers colours, and uni- 
ted into one body, by a petrified cement as hard as themfelves, 
and moft of them I believe capable of politure But the beft of 
allarein the Clofe at Stonor, of which there are fome fo large 
and clofe knit, that could the Ingenious Proprietor^ Thomas Sto-^ 
nor Efq; find a way to flit and polifti them without too much 
charge, he might make him rich Chimney-pieces 2nd Tables of them, 
fo far excelling Porphyrie and Marble^ that perhaps they might 
compare with the beft J^aJ^er or Acbat, For I have feen fuch as 
thefe found about //^;;3f//?e</, curioufly wrought into handles of 
b Dell' Hifl- Nat. lib. iJ^-cap. i6: Amon.Keri Jib. i. cap. 2.. * There is a Quarry of this South 
of Wohercot Church, buE the Cement fo fofr, that it will not polish. 
K knives, 
