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lia ex Bitumine Inscripta non delentur; The Paintmg of Tots witb Bitumen isIndelible. And again, Tingi solidas ex Bitumine Statuas ; The Bitumen, he Lifa, z,. c. tj.says, Sinks into the uery Stones and Pots, which is something more thanGlazsing.

The great Plenty of these Ums found in many Parts of England , scemsto Argue them alio of Englijh Manufacture, but where I cannot gueß, unlesswrought at the Bole--Mines, of which Clay alone they fcem to be made, inCleveland , for that the Barren Tract of Land call’d Black- Moor was wellknown to the Romans, the Jet Rings taken up with these Ums do suffici-ently testify. N owjet and Bole are no where that I know of to be foundwith us in England but in that Tract; being Foslilspeculiar to thosc Moun-tains. Of these Jet Rings seine are Plain, and others Wrought, but allof them of an extraordinary Bigneß, being at least z Itiches Diameter, yetthe inward bore is not above an Inch and an Half, which makes them toolittle for the Wrists of any Man, as they are much to big for the Fingers.

So that probably they were never worn either as Armillx or Anuli.

Being uponthis Subject of Roman Clay-ovork we cannot but take notice j% e obelisks «»of the Opinion of Cambden, who will have the Obeluks at Burrow- Briggs, in Burrow-Bnggsthis County, Artificial , when in truth they are nothing leß, being made ofone of the most common sorts of Stone, •viz,. of a Course Rag, or Milstone- lb - f- 9°-grit; but without doubt, the Bigneß of the Stone Surprized him, either notthinking them Portable, or perhaps not any Enghsti Rock fit to yield NaturalStones of that Magnitude. But Roman Monuments, I seppose, r.one doesdoubt them, because pitch’d here by a very remarkable and known RcmanStation, Isurium. And then confider what Triflcs these are, comparedwith the least Obelisks at Rome. And as to the Rocks whence they mightbe he wen, there are many of that Stone near the River Ntd, and upon theForest of Knarsbourg ; and a little above Ickly, ( another Roman Station)within i 5 Miles of Burrcw-Briggs there is One Solid Bed of this very Stone,whese Perpcmiicular Depth only will yield Obelisks, at least 30 Foot long.

And yet at Rudßone near Burlington in the Torkßiire Woolds , füll 40 Mileswide of these Quarries, is an Obelisk of the very seine Stone, Shape, andMagnitude, of these before mention’d.

But we cannot let this paß without Noting, That almost all the Mo- otber «omi*numents of the Romans with us, were of this sert of Stone ; As the An cient Anti T J;!lC5- ,i ’-Walls of this City, as appears by what remains of the Ancient Gates, and thegreat Quantities of it that is Wrought up in mostof the Churches, and isstill Daily dug out of Foundations : but a most undeniable Instance is, avast Roman Head, pei haps of seme of the Emperors, upon a Neck or SquarePedestal of one Solid Stone, with the Point of the Square to the Eye, of asCourse a Grit as that of th e Obelisks above-mention’a. This Stone is nowin Mr. Htlliar s Garden, and was Dug out of the Foundations of semeHouses thereabouts. The only remaining Inseription that I could find atBurrow-Briggs, yet Imperfect as Well as Odd, is upon this fort of Stone inthe .Street'Wall of Sir William Tanker'% Housc. Also two Roman Altars Flj , +

I have scen of this Stone; One the Original of that at Ickly tnention’d inVol. III. H h h Cambden ;