The 3\(atural Hijlory 
I G I. Yet granting too that in the Primitive Times thtxt werd 
fuch ftrange Earthquakes^ or elfe that there was fome time or o- 
ther fuch a Floods that did cover our higheft hills^ and which 
might be fo z/io/f«/, as to bring j/^^//^ out of iht great deep ^ and 
place them on the tops of Mountains ; yet that our formed ftones^ 
at leaft the moft of them, were notfaHiion'd in fuch molds^ but 
ztt Lapidesfui generk^ may be ftrongly fufpeded from the fol- 
lowing reafons. 
102. Firft, becaufe I have found fome of them that refemble 
fiell-fijh that always ftick to rocks ^ and cannot well be prefumed 
to have come away with the greateft Floods uiilefs fo violent as to 
have brought the Rocks too-, and fuch is that engraven Tab, 5. 
Fig. 7. which whether it beft reprefent the Echini^ quintm of 
Arifiotle^ or fome fort of Lepa6 ox Patella^ equally makes for my 
purpofe, neither of them leaving the roc^ they ftick too, being 
Univalves^ and having the ro:^ it felf inftead of the o/y6er. 
103. Secondly, becaufe there are many fiells^ and other tefta- 
ceou^ and bony fubftances belonging to Fifh^ that muft alfo have 
been left behind upon the ebb of fuch a Flood as well as the reji^ of 
which we have no ftones that refemble them at all. Such are the 
bones of Whales^ Sea-borfes, and the bones of all the fquammeous 
kind ; the great fiells of the Buccina^ Murices-, Conchde Veneris^ and 
Solenes ; the fword of the Xiphica or Sword-fifi^ and almoft all 
xht cruflaceou^Vrnd^ fuch as ^Tr^^fo, Congers^ Lob/Iers^isrc, which 
laft having locomotion^ I fhould much rather expeded to have 
found petrified on the tops of Mountains, than any of the teflace- 
0U6 kind, and yet of thefe we meet the feweft of any. 
1 04. Thirdly, becaufe there are many Stones formed indeed 
in the manner of Bivalves^ (src which yet refemble no fpecies of 
fiell-j^J/j now to he founds whereof feveral are above-mention'd. 
And this is ingenioufly confefs'd by Fabiws Column a\ though one 
of the Adverfaries of this my prefent opinion : Addemws (fays 
he) Pe^lunculorum imagines^ quarum quafdam non nifi lapideas zii- 
dimu6^ of wdiich that he calls his Mytulo-pettunculm rarior Berbe- 
roides, IS one. If itbefaid, that pofTibly thefe Species may be 
now loft, I ftiall leave it to the Reader to judge, whether it be 
likely that Providence which took fo much care to fccure the 
works of the Creation in Noah's Flood, ftiould either then, or 
f Aq^iiatili^ Terrejtr. ohfervat. cap. 21. 
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