Of OXFOX'D^SHlliE. pf 
Fig. 6. where the deft nins not only the whole length of the 
fione^ but quite under the end, and half way up the other fide. 
4:5. Many arethe Afe^//Viw<3/iifes of iXm^lone^ mentioned by 
Boetiu^s , Aldrovandu^ , and Gefner : Whereof the chief are, 
I. For the for which (inftead of the Eurrhc^i4^^ 'tis ufed 
in Sfain and Saxony. 2. For exficcation oi' wounds in Pruffia and 
Pomerania. And 3. for ocular diftempersin Horfes^ in all parts 
of England. 
44. Thus having run through the fuppofititious /lones from 
Heaven^ 1 nextdefcend to the Atmofphere^ or inferior Air, im- 
mediatly encompaffing the terraqueous Globe ; which though in- 
capable of itfelf to be reprefented inftone, yet having met with 
fome related to its Inhabitants^ I mean the feathered Kingdom^ I 
thought fit to give them place before thofe of the Waters. 
45. Whereof thefirft and only one, reprefented in Sculpture 
Tab. 3, Fig. 7. has perfectly the fliape of an Owls head, which 
becaufe not mention 'd by any Author that 1 know of, I thought 
good to exhibit, and call Lapis Bubomu6 ; it is a black, flint with- 
in, and cinereoii6 without, and was found near to Hardwick in the 
Paridi of Whitchurch. 
4^. To which I might have annex'd the ftone Hieracites^ found 
frequently in the Quarries in the Paridi of Heddington^ but is not 
the Hieracites mentioned by Fliny^^ which he fays alternatly 
changes its colour ; but of Gefner % to whofe figure of it, ours is 
exadly hke : but neither his nor ours refembling any thing of a 
Hawks-, or other Birds feathers^ fo much as to deferve a cut^ or 
the Readers view ; 1 havefaved mji felf the expence, and him the 
trouble. 
47. Next the Air^ the flones that concern the Watery Kingdom^ 
fall in order of Nature under confideration, whereof there are 
fome thatfeem to be nothing elfe but meerly concreted drops of 
i?'^/er,found plentifully in the Fields about Kirck/ington 2nd North- 
brook,-, which I touched on before under jf?em)?c^7/io«^, and pro- 
mifed to treat of more largely here. By Authors they are cal- 
led Stalagmites^ and feem either to be generated of pearls of dew, 
fetledonthe fiones as they lie in the Fields, which firft being 
coated over with the fmall terrene atoms that are flying in the Air^ 
and by that means kept in their own form for fome confiderable 
w Lib. cap. 10. :< De Figuris Lapidum, cap.i^. 
