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* Vifsm.De Crlojso-petra.

Consequences of the Deluge.

they are triangular and broad, the oth etrows bend downward toward tbe inner p artof the Mouth. Thus far * Columna.

Fourthly, If these formed Stones be ^deed original Productions of Nature, in in 11 'rations of Shells and Bones, how comes it 10pass, that there should be none found , th 3tresemble any other natural Body , butShells and Bones of Fishes only ? Why lhouWnot Nature as well imitate the Horns, HoofoTeeth, or Bones of Land Animals, or tb £Fruits, Nuts, and Seed of Plants? Now itf/learned Friend Mr.Edward Lloyd above me 11 'tioned, who hath been most diligent in ed'lecting, and curious in observing these 130sdies of any Man I know, or ever heard dt■tells me, That he never found himself,’ oilirtci seen in any Cabinet, or Collection, alt/one stone that he could compare to any pa 1 *of a Land Animal. As for such that doresemble any part of a Fish, they are eitli £rRock Plants, as the AJlroites , Asterice tWchites, &c, or do shoot into that form, aft efthe manner of Salts and Fluors, as thelemutes and Selenites.

Fifthly, Those that deny these Bodies s0have been the Shells and Bones of Fisb cS ’have given us no satisfactory account ofmanner of their Production. For that the/do not shoot into that form after the