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hundred and three tuns , accounting fixteen foot cubic to the 
tun. 
29. Other Quarries there arealfo of confiderable ufe, as Bla- 
den^ Little Milton, Barjord, and Hornton^ whereof the laft has 
the befl: Fire-ftone of any in the County; fome of it feenis to 
have Iron-colour'd veins, that receive (as 1 have feen) a toler- 
able politlh and is the Hone I mentioned before, whofe chippings 
(laid on it) improve their land, by reafon I fuppofe of the 
fait there is in it, which may alfo be the caufe it endures fire 
fo well. 
30. At Cornburji Park there was a fort of fione^ the Quarry 
whereof is now quite exhaufted, that never would fweat in the 
moifteft weather, of which the pavement of the Hall in the houfe 
there, ftill remains as a fufficient teftimony : of this, did it rife 
in great blocks, might poffibly have been made very good Mill- 
fiones, the not fweating being a principal qualification in all Hones 
whatever ufed for Corn-mills, 
31. But before we take leave of materials for Building, we 
muft not forget that the Houfes are covered, for the mod part in 
Oxford-fhire (not with tiles) but flat-ftone^ whereof the lighted, 
and that which imbibes the water leaft, is accounted the beft. 
And fuch is that which they have at Stunsfield^ where it is dug 
fir ft in thick cakes, about Michaelmafs time, or before, to lye 
all the rr/w/er and receive thefrofts, which make it cleave in the 
faring following into thinner plates, which otherw'ife it would not 
do fo kindly. But at Bradwell (near the Grove) they dig a fore - 
o{ /lat-jione^ naturally fuch, without the help of winter^ and fo 
ftrangely great, that fomtimes they have them of feven foot long, 
and five foot over : with thefe they commonly make mounds for 
their Clofes, and 1 have feen a fmall hovel, that for its whole co- 
vering has required no more than one of thefe Hones : and fome 
of them are of fo hard and clofe a texture^ that I have Vnown 
them by Painters o'i very good (kill, preferred before Marhleior 
grinding their colours. 
32. To ftone ufed in Building they fomtimes add Lime^ which 
becaufe for the moft part, is here made of ftone, muft alfo be 
handled in this place ; for which they count the hardeft" rag-fione 
beft, but any will make it, fays the Learned ?F/7/i5'*, except fuch 
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