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Dr. Woodward found Fragments of Shells, and Pel- 
licles of the Ova of Fifhcs; a certain Evidence, that 
this fparry Production was not anterior to the De- 
luge ; for the Stone mrft have coalefcecl and hardened 
upon the Shell, before the fparry Concretion could 
have fixed upon the Surface of the Stone; and as I 
apprehend, tire Learned are now very well fatisfy’d, 
that Inch extraneous FofTils as are mentioned above, 
a:e not the Lufus Nature ; but die Exuviae of Ani- 
mals brought where we find them by the Waters of 
the Deluge. — Where-evcr any Number of the (hotter* 
Spars occur, there may be feen fucceflive Incrufta- 
tions and Cryftals fixing on other Cryflals, fome 
Incruflations broken off, and fhewing their concave 
Eafe, fhapedby the Cufpis or Apex of the Diamonds 
on which they were once fattened ; which fhews, 
that there has been a Sti'cctttion of feparate and dif- 
tindt Indurations. In feveral Places we find wavy 
Procefies * fprmed in thin Plates, on the perpendicu- 
lar Sides of the Rocks, by the Spars flowing down 
in the fame Manner, as one Wave fucceeds another 
on the Sea- Shore-; to which we may add, the fre- 
quent Formation of fparry Efflorcfcencies, Accre- 
tions on Walls, and Staladfites hanging dawn from 
the Vaults and C averns of deferred Mines, Evidences 
fufficicnt of the modern Date of fuch Productions. 
That we may the eafier apprehend this Truth of 
Spars having been once a Fluid (upon which much 
depends), it may here be obferved, that fomething 
very like this Procefs, (I mean Liquors hardening 
mto Stone) is commonly feen in the Effedts of pe- 
trifying Waters; yvhere as foon as the ftony Juice 
* See Tab. V. Fi*. 22. 
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