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of them (a) have gone fo far as to fay, that it would 
turn that Part of the Wood which was in the Mud 
into Iron ; the Part in the Water into Stone, whiht 
the Part above Water remained Wood. 
Some later Writers, particularly Meffieurs William 
Molyneux , Francis Neville and Edward Smyth , and 
from them the late learned Dr. Woodward, [b) the 
Author of the Notes on Vareniuss Geography, and 
others (<r), feem rather to think, that this petrifying 
Quality doth not lie fo much in the Lake it'felf, as 
in the Ground near or about it. 
Mr. Edw . Smyth (d)> who inlarges the mod on this 
Subjeft, and feems to have led the others, and 
drawn them into his Opinion, tells you, “ That 
c< no Experiment or Obfervation yet made, that 
“ he could hear of, could prove that this Lough has 
<c really the Quality of petrifying Wood, or that the 
“ Water doth any way help or promote the Petri* 
“ fication.” He there gives you an Example of a 
Gentleman of Worth and Credit, “ who had fixed 
“ two Stakes of Holly in two different Places of 
u the Lough, near that Place where the Upper Bann 
enters into it,, and that the Parts of the Stakes 
“ which 
(a) Boetius Hid. Gem. et Lap. 
(b) Catal. of Englijb Foflils, Part II. p. 19. 
(r) Sir James Ware's Antiq. by Walt. Harris , p. 227. Edit. 1745. 
folio. 
(d) Afterwards Bifhop of Down. See Phil. Tranf. N°, 174. 
