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Consequences of the Deluge.

middle part, and near the Center of ourCountry, at a great distance from the S&>viz. in Oxfordjhire , there are lound not on j;{hell-like Stones, but real Shells, or Mock'shells (as some esteem them) for Figure,lour, Weight, Consistency, or any other A&cident not to be distinguished from trueand that not such as have been accidental#scattered there, but dig’d out of the Groinsin plenty, and of Fishes that are rarely foufl"in our Seas : Patterns whereof were sent i$ eby my Ingenious Friend Mr, Lloyd, who,'hope, will ere long gratisie the Curious, b}’publishing a general Catalogue of all th 6formed Stones found in England , and his st £ 'marks upon them.

And I havs likewise proved by good A^thority, that beyond the Seas,in high Mou 11 'tains, and many Leagues distant from tb cSea too, there have been Beds of real shellsI might have added Sharks- teeth or Glops'trœ , as both Goropius Becanus and Georg&Agricola testisie,- if not in Beds,y et plentiful#disperst in the Earth. There are severaldical Histories extant (as Dr. Tancred Rob&son informs me) of perfect shells found in A’nimal Bodies, in whoso Glands they were ^riginally formed, which is a considerableObjection, not easily to be removed.

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