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broken off They are black and Tuning like thofe 
in A-> but the points fome what broken ; tho’ when 
whole they mu ft have been lefs hooked, and much 
{mailer than they. 
The rounded part of this foftil body has no tuber- 
cles like the other two, tho’ it is plainly a fpecies of 
the fame kind with them, but is pretty ftrongly fur- 
rowed, and the ridges have the fame black glofly 
polifh as their tubercles. 
Mr. Frankcombe writes, <c That he met with thefe 
“ two bodies A and B in a pit, on the right-hand 
“ fide of the road, as you afcend Shotover-hill from 
Oxford. The uppermoft ftratum in this pit con- 
tc fifts of a yellow fandy earth ; the next a brownifh 
“ clay y then a regular ftratum of large ftony nodules, 
“ about twelve inches thick ; then a dark blue clay, 
“ of about ten feet ; and immediately under a rock of 
“ free-ftone. About two feet above the free-ftone 
{C were found the foftils Ay B. The firft was found 
cc at twice ; the fecond in fearching to complete the 
a firft, and both of them in many fmall pieces, 
, <c as is evident from the bodies the mle Ives, which 
“ he carefully joined with fome thick gum- water. 
“ That the firft is of its proper fhape and figure 
“ plainly appears from the regularity of its tubercles : 
tc and the fecond is as he faw it himfelf in the ftra- 
“ turn. In this clay are found bones of feveral 
<c kinds, oyfter-fhells, Ammonite? , cruftaceous flielis, 
Selenite r, and Belemnitee. 
“ The cliffs on the right-hand fide of Pyrton- 
“ Paftage over the Severn, Gloucefterfhire, aflorded 
a the body marked C. This, fays he, which was 
“ likewife found in a ftratum of blue clay, not unlike 
Q u that 
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