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forked end downward : All of them ^jed through of a black hiew 
Xikt Ebony ^ yet much of the Timber found enough, and fit for 
many ufes, feveral of ihe Trees being a foot or fourteen inches, 
and particularly one above three foot diameter^ and all receiving 
a very good polidi ; and therefore fitter for 7o)/;?eri-in-laid works, 
than paks to fet about clofes, to which ufc that was put, which 
,was found at Binfield. 
i 52. Befide the Trees ^ all along as they dug, they met with 
plenty of Hafcl-nuts from within a yard of the furface to the 
bottom of the/i/, which Times iron teeth had not yeccrack'd ; 
and that which amazed me mod of all,' 1 think they lay thicker 
than ever they grew : Some of which, as well as the Oaks were 
at fome places cover'd with 2i bluifijubslance^ much of the con- 
fiftenceof the fiower of Sulphur^ and not much urlike to the 
fineft blue flarch ; which is the C<£ruleum nativum before m.ention- 
ed in this HifiOry^ Cap. 3. Self. 18. 1 he Oaks had none of them 
any roots ^ but plainly cut off at the kerf^ as is ufed in felling Tim- 
her ; The fliells of the Nuts very firm without, but nothing re- 
mained within of theKernel, but a (hew of the dry outer rind. 
And the bluefubjlance not found only upon the Nuts and Oahs^hut 
in any other fmall cavities of the Eartb, difperfedly here and 
there all over the pit. 
53. Moreover, there was found a fort of iT/^/>ey?o;7e difperfed 
in like manner, in pieces fomtimes as big as ones tiil:, in colour 
fomwhat like to white Marble or Alabafier-, but of a much diiie- 
rent texture. And near the bottom of the pit a large Stags head^ 
with the Brovp-antliers^ as found as the Beam it feif, with two 
Roman Vrns^ both which were broken by the incurious Work- 
men. 
54. How the 7/777^fr fliould be thus djed?LS black as Ebcny^ I 
hope I have made no improbable conjedure, nor is it liable that 
I know of to any exception, unlefs to a Qu_<£re : Why the Nuts 
and Stags head were not dyed fo too ? To which it may be an- 
fwered, That the pores of the fliells being clofer than the wood, 
and neither the nuts nor the born having any thing gall'ifi^ the 
Vitriol of the Earth could have no power on them, whether it 
be wrought by repugnancy or combination, to work that ef- 
fea. 
55. But how the Timber lliould become thus buryed both 
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