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DESCRIPTIONS 
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PETRIFACTIONS, 
Found in the 
Quarries, Gravel-Pits, &c. 
Near BAT H. 
Collected and Drawn 
By JOHN WALCOTT, Efq. 
Nor are thofe innumerable petrifaSlions^ fo various in 
fpecies, and ftru^lure, to be looked upon as vain curio- 
fities. We find in our mountains, and even in the mid¬ 
dle of flones, as it were embalmed, animals^ Jliells. corals, 
which are not to he found alive in any part of Europe. 
Thefe alone, were there no other reafon, might put us 
upon looking back into antiquity, and confidering the 
primitive form of the earth, its increafe, and rnetamor- 
phofis. 
Of the. Ufe of Curiofity. Ry ChYijiophc.r Gedner^ 
Stillingjlcet's Mifcellaneous Tracts, p. 175. Ed. 2d, 
Printed for the AUTHOR, 
By S, PIAZ A RD, BATH: 
And fold by J. Matthews, No. 18, Stravd, London ; 
FletcheR at Oxford ; Fletcher and Hodson at 
Cambridge ; S. Hazard, Bath ; and all the Book- 
fellers in Great Britain and lieland. 
