100 Th f^atural Hijlory 
than to mend the high-ways^ or fome other mean iifes. Nor can 
1 inform the owners of thefe Quarries of any better that it may 
have, except they (liall think fit to burn it for Lime^ for which I 
darepromife it muft needs be excellent. 
60. And fo is the ftone Ofiracomorfhos^ made of heaps of Oj- 
fiersctmtnttd together, and found plentifully enough on ^/^o/-' 
over hilU not far from the way to S'nTimothy Tyrrils ; of which 
I have forbornto give any draughty it being eafily conceived from 
the manner of the Cockles thus heaped together in the two for- 
mer cuts. 
61. To thefe furceed the ftones refembling Sea-fiflj of the te- 
fiaceou6 kind, not found in clufters after the manner of the former, 
but in a feparate ftate : of thefe there are fome curioufly lineated, 
and others plain, with but few or no fuch ornaments, which yet 
I mud treat of promifcuouOj together, becaufe there are of both 
forts in feveral ff^ecies. 
62. Of thefe again fome are of a /z/r^i;7^W form, and others 
bivalvular^ refembling the double (liell'd kind, joyned together 
with a hinge, and yet thefe fomtimes found all with their iliells 
apart, and fomtimes again none of them fo. 
63. Amongft thefe the turbinated orwreatbedkind of fiones^hy 
the Greeks called Stromhites^ from rp^'^^torqueo^ to wreath (which 
is always helically^ and for the moft part from the right hand to 
the left, md(hirally from a greater to a fmaller ending) are but 
feldom found : However, I have met with both the forts of A- 
gricola s, the greater, which he fays is fomtimes nine inches long, 
but ours indeed not much exceeding five, of a plain fuperftcies^ as 
in Tab. 4. Fig, i , and the leffer wanting of half an inch in 
length, but curioufly ftriated, as Fig, 2. both found in the Quar- 
ries in the Parifli of Heddington^ of a cinereous colour, fomwhat 
inclining to yellow, and of a- harder coniiftence than the flone 
wherein they lye. ' 
64. But as for fuch as reprefent the bivalvular Conchd^^ fuch as 
Cockles^ Efcallofs^ Oyfters^ istc wt have very great plenty, as well 
of kinds as individuals. The Conchites or Cockle- flones found 
in this County, may aifo be divided into the greater and leffer ; 
whereof the greater are fome of them ftriated with large y2ri<e, 
g De Natwa Fojjilium, lib. y, * Fid. Buccnnm lapidcum lave Fabii Coh'.rr,?:^^ AquatiliKm terrefir. 
oh few, cap. 32. 
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