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Res ipfas expofui. peroratione non utor • fiarum e- 
nim tceder. Nec fi quidquam regellerit Bernouliius, 
ukerius refpondere neceflo habebo. A contumeliis nos 
femel vindicate & jus & ratio poftulat ; ulterius non 
expedic. 
III. An Account of the ImpreJJion of the almofl En- 
tire Sceleton of a Urge Animal in a Very hard 
Stoney lately prefented the Royal Society, fro7u 
Nottinghamfliire. By Dr, William Scukely, 
M D. and R. S. Soc. 
H aving an Account from my Friend, Rohert 
Darwin^ E(q; of Lincoln’s-Itm, a Perfon of 
Curiofity, of an human Sceleton ( as it was 
then thought ) imprefs’d in Stone found lately at the 
Rev. Mr. John South's^ Re(3or of Elfton near Nejvarkt 
Nottinghamjhire, I was defirous of a Delcription of it, 
for the Entertainment of the R o y a l Society, and 
have at length procured the Stone it (elf for their Re- 
pofitory, where fuch remarkable Appearances are befl: 
preferv d, and delervedly valued. It cannot but be mat- 
ter of Regret, that fo confiderablc a Rarity, the like 
whereof has not been obferv’d before in this llland fco 
my knowledge ) (hould be maim’d and imperfedi, yet 
we may content our (elves if enough be (lill vifible to 
favour a Conjedure of what it has been. The Stone 
it felf is a blue Clay Stone, the fame as ( and un- 
doubtedly came from ) the neighbouring Quarries of 
Fulheckf or thereabouts, upon the Weftern Cliff of the 
long Trad of Hills extending quite through the ad- 
jacent County of Lincoln, k lay, time out of mind, 
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