The S^mral Hi/lory 
knives by that eminent Artift Sir Anthony Cope to which Few | 
i^ctoi might be compared, perchance none preferr'd, either in, ' 
thepohOi or variety of colours, 
20. The Ingenious Mr. Ray ^ amongft other Obfervations 
made in his Journey through Italy ^isrc, tells us,That in the Church i 
of the BenediSiines at Ravenna^ the Monkj did (liew him two ' 
Marble pillars^ for which they faid, the Venetians oft'er'd them no ] 
lefs than their utmoft weight in Silver. But the like he fays, he 
had feen elfewhere, at the Library at Zurich^ and at Verona in our 
Ladies Chappel^ in the Garden of Seignior Horatio Guifti : their 
generation at firft, fays he, was out of a mafs of fmall Flints 
and Pebbles, united by a cement 25 hard as themfelves, and capa- 
ble of /o/i/// re ; which cement^ hegueffes, was feparated by de- 
grees from ^ fluid wherein the ftones formerly lay : which l take 
to be a defcription fo agreeable to ours, that nothing more need 
be faid to promote their tryal. 
2 1 . Hither alfo muft be reduced a courfcr fort of Smirks dug 
up in the pics at Wbatelj Towns end, of a cinereous colour, hard 
and rough, and ftriking fire as well as a Flint. The beft fort of 
Smirhiexwts for feveralufes ; but ours is fit only to cut the hard- 
er fort of ftones, that the fand commonly ufed will not fo well 
do, and perhaps for fome other inferior ufes. 
22. And to thefe muft be added the feveral forts of Sands ^ 
which upon violent motions allftrike fire, and are commonly, 
and fomtimes promifcuoufly ufed, for Buildings Hour-gla[fes^ and 
cutting of Stone. But fome there are of a more peculiar and 
confiderable ufe, and fuch is that dug in the Parifti of Kingham^ 
which after 'tis waftied and duly ordered, fo perfectly refembles 
Calis'fand^ that it ferves and is fold for the very fame : it is not 
found in every place, but they have figns (like Miners^ to know 
where it lies ; viz^ a fort of ftuft' that looks almoft like rotten 
wood^ which if they meet with under the Turf, they feldom fail 
of the Sand a little deeper ; which they firft cleanfe from rubbifti, 
and the greater ftones, by putting it through a courfe fieve, then 
they wafti it in a trough and lay it a drying ; which when fuffici- 
ently done, they feparate again by a finer fieve, thecourfer part 
of it from the finer : the courfer ferves for wheting of fithes, but 
the finer fort for (coming pewter^ for which purpofe it feema 
'tis fo very excellent^ that the Retailers fell it for a penny a 
pound, 
