Of OXF0%l:>:SHt%E. 
and Hornton we find only Conchites or Cockje-slones;, and thofe 
firiated (if at all) from fide to fide tranfverfly^ its in Tab, 4. Fig, 
7, 8. And fo at Glymfton only Cockje-fiones^ but lineated the con-^ 
trary way from the commiffure to the nw, as in Fi^>-. 6. of the fame 
Tab. On Cowley - common wt^nd. noihmghvit Oftracitts^ fuch as 
mTab. 4. Fi^. 19. And in the Gravel-pits of St. Clements z mix-- 
ture of fuch Oyfter-Hones^ and (to which I believe it will be hard 
to adapt a [Jjell-fifi J the ftone Bekmnites. The Nefhiri or Z,i2/>i5 
Megaficu6?x Langley^ is a bed of nothing but Cockles as fmall as 
peafe ^ and that at Charlton the fame, only the Cockles are fom- 
ivhat bigger. So that thefc beds of Cockje-ftones (if they muft 
needs have been Jhell-fipS) feem rather to have been their breed-, 
ing places, where they had aboad for fome confiderable time 
(efpecially where we find them of feveral cizes) than brought hi- 
ther in the jioodmx}vLt time of Noah ^ which remained on the 
Earth hwiforty natural days^ too fmall a time for fo many fljell-fifh^ 
fo difperfed, as they muft be prefumed to be by fo violent a mo- 
tion , to get together and fequefter themfelves from all o-* 
ther company, and fet them down, each fort^ in a convenient 
ftation. 
1 00. And fecondly, that they (liould be brought by any other 
flood IS altogether as unlikely, fince we have no other floods de^ 
liver'd down to us, but the Ogygian and Deucalionian^ which were 
reftrained within Greece, But fuppofe all that can be defired by 
the adverfe party, that there was fomtime or other a National 
^ood here in England^ that did for fome hundreds of years cover 
the face of the Land, of which there is no Record delivered to 
pofterity ; yet that it fliould cover the higheft Hills, or if it did, 
that it fhould force the fiells to their tops, which are weighty 
and rather aff'efl: the loweft places, is a concelTion as hard to be 
granted, as that the Mountains (where fuch ftones as refemble 
them are now found) were heretofore low places and fince raifed 
by Earth-quakes ' a thing by no means to be believed of our Nor-^ 
/Z^er^ parts, where the Earth -quakes v^eh?Lye at any time are fo 
inconfiderable, that they fcarce fomtimes are perceived, , much 
lefsaftrighten us ; unlefswe Oiall groundlefly grant, that in the 
infancy of the World the Earth fuftered moreconcuffions, and con-^ 
fequently more mutations in its fuferficies^ than it has done ever 
fmce the Records of time. 
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