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LETTER XXL 
NAVE ENCRINITE DISCOVERED IN YORKSHIRE BY MR. MARTIN 
LISTER IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE BY MR. JOHN BEAUMONT SUP- 
POSED TO BE THE RADIX OF AN ENCRINUS.... SHEWN TO BE THE 
PELVIS OR SKELETON OF THE BODY PART SIMILAR FOSSILS 
DESCRIBED OTHERS FROM THE ISLE OF GOTHLAND ENCRI- 
NITE IN MR. Donovan’s collection. 
In the year 1674, Mr. Martin Lister discovered, in Braughton and 
Stock, little villages in Craven, in Yorkshire, stony bodies which he 
considered as the radices of entrocM.* Having referred to the passage 
of Agricola, noticed in a former letter, in which he speaks of the Ra- 
dices Entrochorum, Mr. Lister says, “ we, in these rocks, find certain 
rude stones, of the bigness of walnuts, which have many impressions 
of trochitae upon them, as though they had been the roots of them 
and proceeds to observe that all these stones are not to be considered as 
Lapides informes ; instancing to the contrary, the encrinital remains, 
to the consideration of which this letter is devoted.* 
These fossils, he describes as being about the size of a walnut, but 
in the fashion of a pine-apple or cone, with a hollow bottom, sur- 
* Philosophical Transactions, No. 100. 
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