tAn Explication of the Cats contain'd in the ^ }fte
|marked EIQ.. I-
; one fide o f a terrene courfe Fluor er ^ ry fo u n d
in the Mines in Derhyßire, in which are very difcerhible
thofe Bodies' which we commonly call the petrify’d Bonesbf
Filhes o f various forts,fome like the Vertebra of a Flounder,
and the horizontal Boriesbranching with ’em; it containMfo
very lively repfelentatiovhs of Feathers;*^ Skrews, Stats,
pieces o f Shells,;Land thcExuvia o f Reptiles:- {
pig. H Is the Reverfe of the fame Fluor, in which are very
dileernible thofe Bodies which we commonly call petrify’d
Cockles, Oyßers, Teffunculi, Tat elke, thé Nautilus (which is
obfervàble near the lower Verge o f the Figure)’ refembling in
a great meafiire a Crefcent ; various Bodies likéf the* Verfe.
Ira, or Entrochi, Snails, representations of Stärs, a«Stya-
rious ftriated Figures ; pieces o f the Capfula o f Infers,
like thole of Butterflies; thora are alfo fonie Figures refem-
bling the half part of a Worm, befides various Bones o f Several
finall Filhes, and all pdtriff d, or perféft Sfone.ÿ Sorely
in thefe the Difports ofNàtûie aré'wef y remarkable, and
to me it feeins very evident, that they are but thé various
Contextures of Salts, Sulphurs and; Earths, and not the
Exuvia o f Creatures depolited there by^ f ^ i f i e Gravity
at the Deluge, when the È&rth wasmniverlally diflol-
ved, as an eminent Author affirms ; fince thïs-$ratum of
Earth contains all thole different Bodies, viz. Salt's, Sulphurs
and Earths, the various mixtures of which Ihëw us
diverting Reprefentations, as will be obferv’d in other Tables
; fo that he who contends for thefe to have been the
Exmia of thofe Creatures which they reprêfent, mult like-
wife account for the Figures of Feathers and Stars obler-
.Vable in the lame flratum, which I do conjecture is not
eafilydone, taking the whole Matter together.
In Fig. 3. Are two pieces of Marie petrify’d by the Sea-
Water near Roffal in Lancaßire, which lhelves from thôlê
Hills