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dans, were invited to look upon an Ox s that bad for two or 
three days almoft continually held his Neck ftreigbt up, and 
was dead of a Difeafc? the Owner could not eonje&ure at j 
whereupon, the parts belonging to the Neck and Throat, 
being open’d, they found, to their wonder, the Afpera Ar- 
teria in its very Trunk all ftuff’d with Grafs, as if it had been 
throft there by main force: which gives a juft caufe of 
marvelling and inquiring, both how fueh a quantity of 
Grafs ftiould get in there 5 and how, being there, fuch an 
Animal could Jive with it fo long^ 
Of a place in England, where, without petrifying 
Water y Wood is turned into Stone* 
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The fame Searcher of Nature, that was alledged in the 
immediately precedent Obfervations, did impart alfo the 
following , in another Letter from Oxford^ here he faith : 
I was a while fince vjfited by a Gentleman, who tells me 2 
That he met with a Place in thefe parts of England, where* 
though there be no petrefying Springffor that I particularly 
asked) Wood is turned into Stone in the Sandy Earth it felf a 
after a better manner then by any Water I have yet feen : 
For I bad the Curiofky to go to look upon pieces of Wood, 
he brought thence, and hope for the opportunity of making 
fome tryals to examine the matter a little further, then I 
have yet been able to do. 7 bus far that Letter-: 
Since which time. He was pleafed to give this further Itu 
formation of the fame matter, with a Mantiffa of fome o~ 
ther Particulars, belonging to this Subjeff, in thefe 
Words. 
i was lately making fome Tryals with the petrifved 
Wood l told you off, which I finde to be a very odde fub- 
fiance, wonderfully hard and fixed. If I had opportunity 
to Re-print the Hiftory. of Fluidity and Firemeff, 1 could, 
adde divers things about Stones, that perhaps would not be 
diOiked 3 and I hope,, if God vouchfafe me a little teifure, 
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