original of Stones , I hope it may appear,st at this is no idle and unnecessary Discourse,ut very momentous and important ; and this*bjeff } as mean as it seems,worthy the mostfe-ri °us consideration of Christian Philosophersf divines ; concerning which, though I havespent many thoughts,yet can I not fullysathfie*9 self much less then am 1 likely to satisfieothers.

. But I promise my self and them more sullsa~tli faffion shortly from the Labours of those who‘fe more conversant and better acquainted with,, Je J e Bodies than I, who have been more indu -ri oiu in searching them out, and happy in dis-C s°ering them,who have been more curious anddiligent in considering and comparing them,morecritical and ex all in observing and noting theirNature, texture , sigure,parts,places,differences,a *d other accidents, than my self , and particu-arl y that learned and ingenious Person before*****embred .

The following Tables containing some Species%*he most different Genera of these Bodies^viz.liarl^s Teeth, Wolf-filh’s Teeth, Cockles or° n cha, Periwinkles or Turbens,Cornua Am-or Serpent stones,Sea-urchins and theirHckles, Vertebres and other Bones of Fishes,ni ire Filhes Petrifi’d, and of those some singly,*** e ^presented as they lye in Beds andQuar-H U *^ er Ground, for the information of thosej are lest acquainted with such Bodie, werej }0il ght fit to be added to this Edition.