[ 2 57 1 
Power inherent in them, and therefore they could 
produce no fuch EfteCt? 
4 th Query. Whether there are not Quarries of 
Stone, which when left idle, or unwrought for fome 
Time, yield a frefh Supply of Stone in the Chanels 
and Hollows of the laid Quarries, which had been 
before thoroughly cleared by the Workmen (p) ; 
and whether this will not confirm the Suppofition, 
that Stones formed ftnee the Deluge, in Places where 
Shells, Teeth, and the like Bodies, were depofited by 
the Waters, inclofed them in their Subftance? 
You will excufe this Digreffion. 
Sect. 3. 
\ Different Appearances of Spar. 
Our Cornijh Spars are either plain, fimple, and 
unfigured, or figured into various and rectilineal 
Shapes. 
All fparry Liquor is in itfelf ftiff and fluggifh, and 
covets no Shape ; but, being intimately mixed with 
Water, which is the reftlefs Agent, to difperfe, coi- 
led, and renew all fubterraneous Nature, it moves 
as a Fluidby the Rules of Gravitation, that is, from an 
higher to a lower Pofition, till meeting with a reten- 
tive Bed, the Water no fooner retires, and leaves it 
expofed to a drier or colder Air, than it dries, and 
hardens into Stone, in Shape and Size, as the At- 
traction and Quantity of its own Parts determine, or 
(9) See Addifoits Travels into Italy , and Bp. Burnet. 
K k 
the 
