(P4) 
tiini is, changed into Wood, can pnl^ 
affiriii pf the Earth’s fiiperfice, in* 
dutding the Wood, where the Earth,dri¬ 
ed in time and crumbled into diift, dit- 
'^eovecM the Wood inclofed therein :Nei' 
ther do they urge, that in the pores of 
the fame Wobd there have been found 
Metailick threds; whereas I my felf have 
pull'd out of the Earth a fteni ^ which 
by the Knots of the boughs, and by the 
Bark appear’d to be aPlant, whofc creva* 
Ces were fill’d with a Mineral matter. 
From hence alfO might nO 
pMine^If‘ fmall light accrue to the Do- 
Mnerais^ ^ drin of Minerals, if inquiry 
were made in Wood^ and irt 
the place of Wood, what they ma^ con¬ 
tribute to the produdion of Minerals. 
Many things paE under the name of si- 
tuweny bi which yet it may be evinced 
by the bl fibres, and the afheS 
of them when burnt, that they are no¬ 
thing but Goles* 
The ri&rVa? fort hath more difficulty iii 
it,I mean the Figures of Plants imprefs'^d 
by nature upon StoneS; forafmhch as \ve 
obierve fuch kind of Figures in Hoar- 
troft, the Mercurial Tree, feveral Volatil 
‘ Salts, 
