They fay, that in the Houfe of Wifdom at 'Conjiantinople, there is a Marble Stone, that ■by the very natural Veins of the Stone, hath the Piaure of St John the Bapti/i, with his cloathing «of Camels Skin exprefled to the Life, excepting one of his Feet, wh’ch is im- perfeia. • It is a fign that Nature hath not wrought by Chance, but by particular Study, and to fome myfterious End, when in the fame Spe cies of Stones are found the fame Marks and Figures, 'like thoie in the Fields of V?rona, which lion Baptijla reports,to have feen ; and^ that they have painted upon them the Image of the Chair ,o{ Solomon. And another black •Stone, which .being broken at one End, hath ipainted. in it exadtly, and to the Life the 'Pidtune of a Serpent; and that it hath the "Virtue to draw Serpents unto it. Albert us Magmi iffirms to have feen 500 Serpents got ten upon a' Stone of that kind, which was^re- 'fented-unto, him. Whemwe meet with Stones that reprefent Animals, or the Limbs of them, or Plants, nr other Things not by fuperficial Draught -or Colouring, but in .Bulk altd Subftruice. I believe it may arife from fome petrifying Li quor, -whidh lhat Matter has fuck’d into it’s Pores, and thereby is become all Stone, and fo thinks Avicenna: But although fpmetimes <this may be the Caufe thereof yet methinks it cannot reafonably be fuppofed to be fo al ways. At the Foot of the Mountains Mifnenfes, near unto the Lake of Alfatia, Stones ane very commonly found that have cmbofs’d ( upon