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up many Hands to confiderable Advan- 
tage. 
The grcat Variety of the Soils here, 
produces almoft ali Sorts of Vegetables, 
which our Catalogue of fuch Flants as 
grow fpontaneoufly in this Neighbour- 
hood, fufficiently fhews. 
Fossi ls and form’d Stones, of various 
Sorts, are frequently found in thefe Parts, 
as a Sort of * Pyrites , which Dr. Plot 
calls Crow-Iron ; being on the Outfide of 
a dark Colour, refembling rufty Iron, but 
within of a refplendent golden Colour, 
which it foon lofes by being expofed to 
the Air, or laid in a damp Place. A few 
Grains of this Marcafite put into Water, 
where a fmall Quantity of Galls had been 
fteep’d, inllantly chang’d it black as Ink^' 
and gave it a remarkable Styptick Cha- 
lybeate Tafbe. 
Here are likewife to be met with 
Shells of feveral Sorts, embodied in Chalk, 
and chiefly thofe of the Bivalve Kind ; 
as alfo the Lapides Echinites y and forne- 
* Plot’; Nat, Hijl. of' Qxfordlhire, p. ji. 
times. 
