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Part III. And Stoner life them. 
The SHEATH-STONE. S olenites. Like the petrify’d (hell 
of the Sbeatb-Fijh .'Tis fill’d with a kind of limy fubftanee. 
A piece of WHIRLY-ROCK. Turbinites Saxum. A fort 
of Gypftim of a dark colour, with the femblance of divers 
kinds of turbinated or whirled (hells immerfed therein. 
Diflfoluble with Spirit of Nitre, but very flowly. There is 
one like to this in Befler. 
A Piece of white MUSCLE-ROCK. Mufculites Saxum. 
With the fimilitude of little, white, furrow’d Mufcle-fhells. 
Another Piece of an Afh-colour, and more foft. 
A piece of fpoted MUSCLE-ROCK, fc. with white, 
red and brown, in imitation of Marble. In which alfo are 
beded, as it were*, feveral Mufcle-fheUs. Although it hath 
the face of Marble, yet is it a kind of Gypfum, diflfoluble 
with Spirit of Nitre. 
A Piece of MIXED SHELL-ROCK. Conchites mifcella- 
nem. Compofed of petrify’d (hells, both of the Turbina¬ 
ted, and the Bivalvous kinds, beded in a kind of gritty 
Lime-Stone. In Calceolarims Mufaum (a) is one like to 
this, in the form of a Choping-Knife, but without a Name. 
Another in Ferranti Imperato. ( b) And in Aldrovandus, s 
Mufaeum , by Ambrofmus called Oftracomorphos Lapis. Not 
properly, Lapis, as being part of a Rock.: nor,by the former 
word, fufficiently expreiling the mixture of (hells therein. 
Another, confining of fuch like (hells (or their refem- 
blance ) beded in a brown Stone. 
CHAP. II. 
Of VEGETABLE BODIES petrify d, and other 
life STONES . 
O F this kind, here is alfo great variety3 being 1 , or 
reprefenting,Fruits,parts of Flowers, Leaves,Branches, 
Stalks, Trunks, and Roots: in which order I (hall fet them 
down. Only referving CORALS with other like Marine 
Productions, to be fpoken of by themfelves. 
A Petrify’d KATHERINE PEAR, or a Stone naturally 
very like one.Being,as that is fometimes,a little bended,very 
M m llender 
(V)Se<£t. 3; 
p. 317. 
(b) Lib. 24. 
e. 25. 
