Of 0 XFO %T>^S H1%E. izf 
Fig, 7. To which may be added, the Lapides Judaici of Oxford- 
Jhire^, which though of a much more (lender and longer figure 
than any fort of OHve^ yet becaufe in other Countries they clre 
found in that shape, and for that very reafon called fomtimes Py- 
renes^ and treated on by Authors ' amongft fiones relating to the 
fruits of Trees^ I shall not change their place. We find them 
hereof different cizes, from about two inches in length and an 
inch and half in circuit, downwards to an inch andlefs inlength^^ 
and not much above half an inch round J Mofl of them have a 
kind of pedicle^ from which they feem to have had their growth, 
and are ridged and channelled the whole length of the flone.^ the 
ridges hdngpurled with fmall knots, fet in the Quincunx order, as 
in Tab. 6. Fig. 8. As to their texture^ I find it to be very curious, 
made up of LamelU or little thin plates^ not unlike the ^one Se- 
lenites ; only thefe are opaque^ and the whole bulk of the ftone 
indeed much different. 1\\q Plates ^zs'miht Selenites^ feem to 
be made up of firings^ which in mod of them run three^ but in 
fome but two ways ; according to the running of thefe firings 
the Hones willeafily cleave, but generally fome oneway rather 
than any other, which mod commonly is agreeable to the helical 
running of the rzW^ej of knots or furrows between them, yet all 
ways obliquely to the Axis of the ftone, as is perfeftly shewn. 
Tab. 6. Fig, 9. which reprefents the ftone broken the three fe- 
veral ways. 
137. By Authors they are faid to be of different Sexes^ the 
leffer and rounder of the feminine., and the greater and longer of 
the mafculine gender ; whereof the former is good againft the 
ftone in the bladder., and the latter againft it in the kidneys., for 
which reafons they are fomtimes by Authors C2i\\t6. Eur rhei, and 
Tecolithi. The greater and longer, fays Gefner ^ are rarely found, 
but that muft be reftrained to his own Country ; for here in Ox- 
ford-JInre., and particularly in the Quarries of rubble ftone near 
Shotover-\{\\\ we have plenty of them. 
138. There is another fort of them alfo at the fame place, 
much more (lender than the reft, plain and fmooth, without ei- 
ther ridges or channels., mentioned by C<£falpinm " - which (and 
not the Lapis Judaicu6) by him is faid to be the true Tecolithm of 
f Gefner de Figuris Lapidm?i, cap. ^- f^em loco citato, « Andreas Caffalpinus de MetaUicis, lib.%' 
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