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kind are embellilhed with ribbed, ftudded, and reti- 
culated works ; e.g. the Hercules’ club, or rubi facie 
JenticoJa planta Lobelii , defcribed by Dr. Grew, Mu- 
feum Reg. See. p. 221. the cerei, &c. 
I further exhibit to the Society Tome few fpecimina 
of iron-dones with cones or iuli imbedded in them. 
Thefe, my Lord, are from veins of ball iron-done, 
in the lands of Lord Gower, at Okenyate, a village 
on the Roman road of Watling-dreet ; and from the 
iron-works at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. The 
cones are frequently met with in fragments, but 
rarely fo intire, and are never found but in the drata 
of iron -done. I have added to thefe a figured foffile 
body, much like a cone, found fometimes in our 
chalk-pits in England, but chiefly in the pits at 
Cherry-Hinton in Cambridgcfhire. Dr. Woodward, 
Catalogue B. p. 22. fpecimen b.-j 2. calls them cones 
feeming to be of the larix ; and imagines they were 
not come to ripenefs or maturity. They certainly 
have fome refemblance to cones, tho’ I much doubt 
them to be fo ; but they mod exadtly refemble the 
roots of the cyperus rotundus vulgaris of botanids. 
I diall finifh this paper, my Lotd, by acquainting 
your Lorddiip and the Society, that I firmly believe 
thefe bodies to be of the vegetable origin, buried in 
the drata of the earth at the time of the univerfal 
deluge recorded by Mofcs. It is, I mud confefs, 
with regret, that I find there are fome, who rejedt 
the burial of thefe bodies at that fatal catadrophe, 
but fubditute partial deluges to account for it. Did 
thofe gentlemen confider, or maturely weigh, the 
many remarkable and drong evidences of an univer- 
fal deluge, every-where obvious in the bowels of the 
earth, they certainly would abandon their imaginary 
fydem : 
