Consequences of the Deluge.^Phiomorphotu Bodies,as is enough to staggerl°y Man’s belief, if not utterly to overthrowls Opinion of their owing their original ton y Sea-shell; which take in his w ords. A-^ others of this kind of Bodies which Iar 0e observed, IJhall inflance in one , whichle reduced to none but the Ophiotnor-* ^tes, which I found growing between the! 3ln Plates of a kind of brittle blew Slate inRocks, some a furlong within the fulle(l -mark, and in some where the Water comeshighest Tides, only in great Storms,' Je » the Waves break, it is dafht sometimes$finst them, being forced up by the Winds ;'hich being broken with a convenient Tool ,'billshiver all into very thin Plates; between'bhich I have found in abundance of those Stones,H t as brittle as the Slate in which they grew fa sd of the fame conststence ; but so thin, thatJ e broadest, being about four Inches, are not1° thick as a Half Crown Piece, some not halfan Inch broad, were as thin as a Groat, and soProportionally up to the largest, covered witha Superficies as thin, and exaltly of the colourI Silver foil; and where the Sea-water wash-^ them, and they are exposed to the Sun andjnd when the Tide is gone, they are tarnish-> and appear of a Gold, Purple, Blew andt €( b; as any thing on which Silver fo il is laid,e,>, g exposed a considerable time to the Sun ,

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