154 Consequences of the Deluge.

In sine, these Ophiomorphous Stones domore puzzle and confound me » than anyother of the formed Stones whatsoever, be-cause by Mr. Hook's Description of thoseKeinjham , they seem to have been, or toowe their original to (hells ; and yet thereis nothing like them appears at this day inour or any other Seas, as far as I have seen,heard, or read.

Thirdly, A second Argument to provethese formed Stones never to have beenShells, Dr. * Plot affords us, Because that e-,°xf-t ’"7 ven those Shells, which so exactly representsome sorts of Shell-silh, that there can be noexception upon the account of Figure, butthat they might formerly have been Shellsindeed, at some places are found only withone (hell and not the other. Thus in CowlejCommon [in Oxfordshire ]we meet only withthe gibbous, non tlje flat (hell of the petri-fied Oyster , and so of the Escallop-ft ones inthe Quarries near Shotover: which if theyhad once been the (hells of Oysters and Escal-lops , had scarce been thus parted. To thisI answer, That this Argument is not neccfsarily conclusive ; because there may possi-bly be some reason of it, though we knowit not, nor can easily imagine any. Th clike Answer may be returned to his next Ar-gument.

Thirdly?