Consequences of the Deluge.

Wind and Weather, will do. These have th*fame spiral Figures, and as regular as thether Serpent-fortes, and being taken off wit"a Knife, leave the fame Impressions on bot‘ }fides of the Slate.

In some such Rocks of Slate, but much hat'der, I found some of those Stones of anothkind, thick in proportion to their breadthfrom an Inch to twenty eight Inches broad >the broadest one was at the great end ( $which some Authors have fabulousty reportWthe Head to grow ) fix Inches thick: all e Jthem covered over with a white scale , whid }will be taken off, one coat under another , &Fearls or the shells of some Fishes. I fa$some impressions as big as the Fore-wheel ofChariot, &c. What shall we say to this •Were there ever any Shell-fish in ours, otother Seas, as broad as a Coach-wheel ?thers as thin as a Groat ? What is becotfl eof all. this kind of Opbiomorphite Shell-fish -And yet (which is strange) both these kindsby Mr. Colest description, teem to have be e(1covered with shells.

Bv what I have said concerning these st'phiomorphous stones not to have been Na«'tilt, J would not be thought to reflect upofl>or detract from the Veracity or Exactnessthe Observations of Mr. Robert Hook, who A 1for his .Learning and deep Insight into th e

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