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fear chin g after curiolities of this nature. He found 
them himfelf, but could not get them out of the bed 
they lay in without breaking them in many pieces : 
though he has glewed thofe pieces fo well together, 
that one may judge of them nearly as well as if they 
had not been broken. 
As I muff return them to Mr. Frankcombe when 
they have been examined by you, I have caufed 
Drawings of them to be made, for the fatisfa&ion of 
thofe who may never have an opportunity of feeing 
them ; to which Drawings I fhall refer in the de- 
scription of them I am going to give. I fhall then in- 
form you, from his letter that accompanied them to 
me, where and amongft what other kinds of foffil bo- 
dies they were found, with other particulars relating to 
them. And afterwards I fhall Venture to lay before 
you a few conjectures concerning them. 
Plate VI. thews thefe curious foffil bodies at more 
than half their real bignefs. They are only three 
in number, though there are four figures, one of 
them being drawn in two pofitions. They are evi- 
dently of a boney fubftance, made black, moft likely, 
and rendered brittle, by fome mineral fteams or juices, 
though not corroded by them. Two of thefe bodies 
{A and B) have the greateft part of their outer fur- 
face ftudded, as it were, with pretty regular rows of 
tubercles, about the fize of the heads of finall nails, 
riling to a blunt roundifh point, nearly one twelfth 
of an inch above the furface they iffue from. Many 
of them appear radiated very prettily from the bale 
to the apex ; and perhaps they have all been fo, tho’ 
in fome the lines are not now feen, and may have 
been 
