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about lies very high, and is as ftony a fail ground, as almofl any 
where to be found. 
^8. It remains therefore, that it muft needs be defignedly bu- 
ried, and if in any other places of the heath,^ as well as in the 
fond^ may poffibly be difcover'd either by the herbage over them, 
which will wither much fooner than any of the reft; as near Teo- 
' • Tj'il in Somerfet-JJnre , where, as we are informed by the Reverend 
and Learned Dr. Beal''^ the parched part juft over them, will 
bear the very length and fliape in grofs of the trees^ whence they 
i have been inftrufted to find and take up hundreds of Oaks 
Or by thediredion of the in Summer ; it being obferved in 
Cumberland''^ that the dew never ftands on any of the ground 
under which fuch trees lie ; though poffibly too, on the other 
fide we may have no {uch indications herein firm grounds, they 
being hitherto obferved only in moors and mofes, 
59. But as for the timber at Blunds Courts as it was found, fo 
it requires a deeper refearch, it being very unlikely they (liould 
dig fo low, upon the fame fcore as at Binfield^ fince timber might 
have been buryed on far eafier terms, as formerly in Kent, Much 
lefs can it be admitted it (liould be fwallowed by an Earth-quake, 
or as the vulgar will needs have it, thus cover'd with Earth by 
the violence of a Flood^ and particularly by that in the days of 
Noah. For in either of thofe cafes, we lliould have found each 
tree with roots as well as branches^ vv^hereas thefe were plainly 
hewen off at the Kerf^ as is ufed in felling Timber^ the marks of 
the Ax ftill remaining upon them. 
I ^o. Befide, the feveral other things found in company of thefe 
trees, feem to give teftimony of fome other matters, Thefirft 
and chiefeft whereof, is that blcwiili kind of fubftance, which 
I am ftrongly perfwaded is Cderuleum nativum^ and the rather, 
bccaufe found in an Earth. Iht tmt Cyprian C<^ru - 
1 leum^ or Ultramarine^ as is teftified by Rulandu^^ being found in 
terra cinerea ; and the Cdcruleum Fatavinum, in glebis jubcinerei6 P; 
1 with whom zgvtQS Kent mannu6^ as cited above. Chap. 3. 18. 
jl And if true C^eruleum^ we have reafon to fufpeft a Mine under- 
neath ; for then, fays Aldrovandu^, is Caeruleum produced, when 
fome faline acid humor (fuch as the Vitriol that dies the Trees 
" Philofoph. Tranfadl. N»OT^. 18. °BritanmaBacon!ca\n Cumkrland. Mart. Kul and. Lexic Al- 
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