26 The Natural Hijlory 
of tb in /.i?^f//<£ or plates, lying obliquely to the ^ori:^ow^iz/ pofi- 
tionof xhtSt^r^ much after the manner of Z.^^ is Judaicm^ and 
their colour various, according to the different Soils they are 
found in: whence 'tis, that m G louder- [hire znATork-fiire, 
where diey are taken out of a blew clay, they are almoft them- 
felves of the fame colour, breaking, as the Ingenious Mr. Li/?er 
informs us Flint-like-, and of a dark fliining politure. In War- 
vrick-fiire they are accordingly, and in fome places alfo of G/o- 
cejler-fiire^ of a cinereous colour. And here at Cleydon^ becaufe 
taken forth of a yellowifli earth, of a yellow colour, herein va- 
rying from all 1 had feen before. They differ much alfo from 
thofeof other Co//;?//V5 in circumference and foftnefs ; for here 
we have them ordinarily of above an inch and half, and fcarce 
any fo little as an inch in compafs ; than which in thofe Counties 
there are but few bigger. And whereas in other Counties they 
are fo hard and fo firmly cemented, that 'tis very difficult, if at 
all poffible, to feparate them from each other, without fpoiling 
the Intagli or workmanOiip of the Stars; thefe if but fteeped 
a night in vinegar^ or other (liarp liquor, may be divided the next 
morning with fafety and eafe. 
1 8. And as in colour, circum.ference, and hardnefs ; fo thefe 
fometimes differ from thofe of other places in figure too, as 
Tab, 2. Fig. 2. where befidc the fculpture that makes up the an- 
gles, there is plainly reprefented a ro/e, or other uniform ^gme^ 
in the middle of it, which I never faw at any other place, nor 
indeed are fuch often to be met with there. 
1 9. In all other matters, I think thefe A{leri<£ of Cleydon a- 
gree with the accurate defcription of them, by the Ingenious Mr. 
Lifler^ % all feeming to be fragments, and no intire Bodies, and 
found either in one fmgle joint, as in Tab. 2. Fig, 2. or in 2, 3, 
4, 8, 10, or 1 5 heaped together, as in Fig. 3. making zfenta- 
gonom cylindrical column^ of which 1 met with none that were full 
an inch long; but however, guefs that about 20 yojwr^, as in o- 
ther places, may go to an inch : every joynt confifts five an- 
gles^ w^hich in fome are verv obtufe^ in others more acute ; the 
middle of t^ch. angle little hollowed, and the edges more 
prominent and thick furrowed, by which the {twm\ joynts are 
knit together, their ridges and furrows being alternately let into 
^ Philofoph.Tra}iJaii. Numh. \i2. > Ibid. 
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