Consequences of the Deluge, IEchini Spatagi, the Arguments the Doctor0 et % Cs out of Aristotle and Rondeletius docv 'nce. For though in iome Seas they, a y be i^xdyi oi iy cT7rnviot , yet in others are-fy plentiful enough. In our own Seas atf a *dwy» in the Isie of Anglesey , we mayeatonably conjecture, they are more plen-, u | than the common Echini any where0, ^ us ; because we found more of theirhells cast up there on the shore,than of thec kttti in any shore about England ; nay, soopinion are they there, that even the Vul-S a t have taken notice of them, and imposedry ame upon them, calling them Mermayds**eads. And though their Bristles or Prickles^ere but small,yet were they not few or thin‘St, as Rondeletius faith.

How the Snake-stones about Hmtly-mh? n d Whitly in Torkjhtre came to be includedf Globular or Lenticular Stones, is not dif-, 1Cul t to make out: for the Cliffs thereaboutC/ng Allum stone or Mine, wherein thesena ke*stones lye; the Sea in Spring-tides^ Tempestuous Weather undermines andhtows down part of the Shore or Cliffs,^hich by the fall break in pieces, and theVphioniorpbus stone being harder than theof the Cliff, is broken off from it by the*. > or its volutation in the Sea afterward,lt h some part of the Cliff or Allum-stone

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