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is made of Yew, and the Stone is not inferted into 
the Handle at Right Angles, but makes an acute Angle 
below towards the Hand ; the Ufe of which appears 
at firft Sight. I am, 
My LORT), 
Tour moft obedient , 
Humble Servant , 
Robert CORKE. 
VI. A Letter from the Revd Mr. Griffith Hughes, 
Minijler of St. Lucy 5 Farifh in Barbadoes, 
to Martin Folkes, Efq ; 3V. R. S. concerning 
a Zoophyton, fomewhat refembling the 
Flower of the Marigold. 
SIR , 
■Rend Nov. T" 1 Owever furpriftng the Defcription 
10. 17+3. XJL a Flower, which I believe is in 
Reality an Animal, may appear 5 yet we cannot, 
without the higheft Arrogance, prefume to pre- 
fcribe Limits to the Power of the Almighty, 
who, for wife Ends, fometimes hides his Works in 
fuch Darknefs, as to be concealed from the moft 
exalted human Knowledge. There are no Ages paft, 
in which frefh and almoft numberlefs Inftances of his 
wonderful Works have not difcovered themfelves. 
And what, in ours, feems moft inexplicable, will, 
poffibly, appear to Futurity, no more than the na- 
tural 
