lo8 T'he ^amral Hijlory 
born, found, always in the deepeft waters, and fticking to Rocks, 
much after the fame manner as here reprefented in ftone. Fig. 7. 
which in conformity to Ariftotk may be called Echinites minutii^. 
And this had ended my Difcourfe of Stones refembling Shell- 
fifl) of the cruftaceou^ kind, but that I am admonifliM by the 
Learned, and defervedly Famous F/mo//, yix.Hooky and Mr. 
and fmce them by the Ingenious Sicilian Gentleman Mon- 
fieur Boccone 
87. That the fione commonly ftiled Cornu Ammonh^ alfo be- 
longs to this place, as being nothing elfe but the petrified fiell 
of the Nautilm^ or Coquille de PorceJhin ; or as Ronddetiu^ ^ calls 
it, the tefiaceou6 Polypus. Of thefe we find plenty in the Coun- 
ty of Oxford^ of different colours^ figi^^'^^^ cizes^ but all fo curled 
up within themfelves, that the place of iheheadis always in the 
circumference and the tail in the center of the jlone^ and therefore 
by the Ancients called ^'orwz/^^ Jmmoni^^ for that they refembled 
the curled horns of the i?^/;;, worfliipp'd by the name of Jupi- 
ter ^mmon in the defarts of Africa ' ; to whom Alexander the 
Great having declared himfelf Son^ that he might be the more like 
fo inhuman a Father^ he aiTumed the horns of the Ram Deity-) as 
may be feen on the Imprefjh of fome of his Mony. And fo did 
Lyfimachm that (ucceeded him iwThrace^^ At tila the Hun^. and 
fome other proud Princes, 
88. The places in this County moft remarkable for this Jlone^ 
are i . The City of Oxford it felf, where, in digging cellars^ foun- 
dations^ isrc. chiefly in the eafiern parts of it, they are commonly 
met with ; whereof fome are fmall, the parts protuberant^ and 
fweUingto a round, as in 5. Fig, 8. others broader and 
more depreffed^ as in Fig.c^, but the lineations of both waved^?ind 
extended from toward the center^ to a fingle edged ridge in the 
back of the Jlone: and therein different from a //)ir<i fort found 
alfo at Oxford^ who^Q line at ions are larger, notfo thick nor waved, 
and terminated at great protuberances on each fide of the ftone^ be- 
tween which, on the broad back of it, there intercede other //- 
neations^ the whole body of the jlone being alfo divided by Su- 
tures^ in form much refembling the leaves of (9^^, as in Fig. 10, 
The two latter of thefe are both perforated at the center^ and there- 
Micograph. Obfcrv- 17. c Oblervations Topooraph. />. 12^ 'Recherc'cs Ohftr'vatmisNa' 
iure'des.,Lettre2.%. e BeVifcibrnJib. ij.cap.^. f Curtii de reb. GeB. Alcxandrh Hi^or-lih. 4. 
V See the Cabin.c in the Bodkyan Libiai y. 
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