of 0 XFO %p^S HI%E, lop 
fore called by BaubinuA Cornua Ammoni6 per tufa : And all thres 
adorned with a fihining brafen Armature^ in lullcr equalling that 
metal it felf, yet of v^^hich in fubdance it has nothing kTs, though 
Agrkola haveafiirnied it to be nature rudunentum id met allian face- 
re difcentls, 
89. Boetim de Boot^ in his Book deLapidihu^ (s" Gemmi5\ thinks 
the ftone it felf naturally of zferrnginecii^ colour, which lying in 
an Earth fated with an almiinon^ juice, is changed thereby into 
this hrafen colour. To which de Laet in his Supplement, adds, 
atramentum futorium ; both which, he fays, joined, give that co- 
lour to Iron, For my part, I rather think it may be performed 
by Nature^ much after the fame manner they guild money at our 
Englifi Baths if fo, there will be requifite fomthing urinous ^ 
which they always add thereto fuperinducefuch a colour, where- 
of more at large when I come into Somerfet-flAre. 
90. The fccond place eminent for produdion of thefe s7om, 
is the Parifli of Clejdon^ where they find them of many more 
turns than thofe at Oxford^ though not much bigger ; without 
Armature^ of 2i yellow'ijh colour (like the Ajlerid^ before men- 
tioned found at the hme place) and difterently Jlriated, as in Fig, 
1 1 . in which the Jlri^ from the innermoft part of the Jlone are all 
fingle, but many of them divided before they reach the rim of it, 
where they are terminated with a back much more protuberant 
than the reft of the /lone^ hut zYikefiriated. 
9 1 . Near Thame^ in the Fields Eaftward from the Churchy they 
fomtimes meet alfo with the Cornu Ammonh^ firiated fmgly like 
the former, neartheinner part of the fi one, and prefently divi- 
ding, but without /er;;2i;2J/io;2 either at any ridge^ ox oth'tx protu- 
berancies in the back ; the divifion being continued to the other 
fide of the fione^ where 'tis made again into one conmion linea- 
tion^ as In Fig. 12, Of which fort I had fome arches or parts fent 
me alfo from C hiflehampon^ by the Right Worftiipful Sir John 
D'Ojly Baronet, in whom flourifli all the Virtues o^ that ancient 
Houfe, But thefe (not like the former) a hardy?o«e, but fome 
of them a kind of Terra lapidofa^ or hardened yellow clay^ one 
degree perhaps above that of the bed wherein they lay; which 
(befide Sir Thomoi Pennyftons clay Cockles) feem to overthrow 
^ Joann.BauhintisdeLapidibM vmisinfine Hifi. admira^^ ' Cap.2J^6. k De La- 
pid. Gemmis, cap. 22. 
Steno's * 
