88 The 3\(atural Hilhry 
23. A third fort there is, and indeed the mofi: beautiful of 
hy it has been hitherto my luck to meet with, to be had in fh^ 
Fields about Steeple-Barton^ firft difcovered to me by a worthy 
Gentleman, fmce deceafed, the Wordiipful £^/ir^r<i.S'/?e/,:/o« Efq*i 
to whofe furtherance of my defign I am not a little indebted* 
Butthefe, quite contrary to the former, zielntagli^ deeply en- 
graven like ay^/j/, and ftriated from the prominent edges above 
(which for the moft part are Hexagons^ and fomtimes Pentagons) 
to a center in the bottom, as in Tab. 2. Fig. 6'. yet agree with 
the former in this, that the Stars of all three ate only fuperficial^ 
and not to be found in the body of the (lone, and have none of 
them (that I know of) been any where noted before. 
24. To thefe add 2i fourth fort, imperfeftly defcribed by Gef- 
ner , and out of him by feveral others ; whofe y^ri^e, like the third 
fort, defcend in a concave^ but from edges moft times rounds or 
quinquangular at the top, and tend to a center not of their owii 
kind, as in Fi^. 6. but fmooth ; and not depreffed, but vifibly 
prominent, as in Fig.j, Thefe are found in the afore-mentioned 
Quarries of rubble-ftone in the Farifi of Heddington^ and are 
ftellated not only in the fuferficies of the ftone, but quite through 
the whole depth of it, yet not fo that one continued Jlar (as fome 
have thought) does reach through it ; but many, according to 
the thicknefs of the Jione^ about ten of them lying in the depth 
of an inch^ much after the manner of the AHeri<£ ox flar-ftones^ 
only they are not feparate, but joined together, and making as it 
were fo many rangesin thtftone^ which are clearly reprefented by 
Fig.S. whichOiews thefaceof fucha fionCy cut parallel to the 
defcentof the JIars in its body, which lie within one another like 
fo many cones. 
25. Of this fort in France there are fome fo great, as Gefner^ 
was informed by Petru^ Belloniu^^ that they ufcd them in building 
of Walls and Houfes ; to which ufe 'tis true we do not put ours, 
but! fuppofe it is not for want of bignej^, but becaufe we have 
much better ftone for that purpofe ; for here we have them like- 
wife fo plentifully and great, that we commonly pave our Caufejs 
with them, as may be feen in the Caufej without St. Clements^ 
leading from Oxford up Heddington hilL 
26. Having hitherto confidered thefe flones apart,, and feen 
flow' 
