Of OXFO'EJ).SHi%E. i^i 
prefefiting the ^/<2;zi and prd^putium penk humani \ but without 
2^^y frdcnum faftened to the urethra : Of which out of modefty 
1 have given no fculptures, 
154. To thefe add another fione which v/e may call Lapis Ne- 
phritku^i not from any likenefs either in colour or efieO: to the 
whitiP^gTeen /ioneui'ed in difiempers of the Kidtieys (though the 
y/gw^/wr^ it carries might perfwade a tryal) but from the colour 
and figure it has of the Eidncy of an Animal^ with a trunck of 
one of the Vrcters defcending from the hoilov/ of it, as in. Tab. S, 
F/g. 3. Thisy?c;7e was lent me by the Reverend and univerfally 
Learned Dr. Ralph Bathurft , Vice-Chancellor of Oxford ^ and 
Dean of Wells^ one of the moft cordial Encouragers of this de- 
jign ; who found it hanging to an Oyfler by that part which repfe- 
feiits the Vreter, which was then fo foft that he eafily cut it a- 
way with his knife ; but within lefs than an hour (lilie the Gorgo- 
nla of Pliny it grew as hard as the reft of the fione^ which I 
guefs may be equal to that of a Pebble : preferving, I fuppofe, its, 
nanve foftnefs whil'ft it enjoyed the faltfteams in the heap of 
Oyjlers^ and not hardning till expofed to the purer Air ; which 
evidently (liews (though the opinion be exploded of Coral^ 
that there are indeed fome other ^'^^i things, fofc under water, or 
whil'ft they enjoy the fteams of it, that as foon as expofed to the 
frellier ^z'r, become prefently /?o;2t5-. " - ^ ' ' Vvi 
15^. Next the/o;7ei that relate tb either of the three Fe/am- 
cles^ come we next to fuch as concern the y4r/;^5, or other ;77m- 
hers of the body : Amongft which, I have one dug out of a Quar- 
ry in the Par ifli of Cornwcll^ and given me by the ingenious Sir 
Thomas Penny§lon^ that has exadly the figure of the lower moft 
part of t high -hone g'l a Man^ or at leaft of fome other Jni- 
mal^ with the capita femorks inferiora^ between which are the j;^- 
terior (hid behind the/c?^///wre) and the larger pofterior finm^ the 
feat of the ftrong that rifes out of the //j/^/?, and that 
gives fafe paffage to the veffds defcending into the leg : And a lit- 
tle above the finws^ where it feems to have been broken ofi"!, (hew- 
ing the marrow within of a lliinihg (far-liks- fubftance , of its 
true colour and figure, in the hollow of the hone^ as in Tab, 8, 
Fig. 4. In compafs near the capita femoxi^ juft two foot, and at 
the top above the finm (where the thigh-hone is as fmall as any 
^'Nat.Hifi./ih.'tij-cap.io, ■ 
ti: ^ " wherey 
