( 46 ) upon their Superficies, the Images of Frogs andFifhes in fine Copper. Anciently they call d a fort of Stone Concbites, which were in all their Lineaments very like unto the Cockles of the Sea; and they thought that thofe Fifh-fhells lying a long time in Soil, where much Stones were begotten, the pe trifying Liquor entring into the Pores of the Shell, converted it into Stone : And they ground this Opinion upon the Certainty that the Sea in old Time hath overflown the whole Territory of the City of Magara, where only thefe fort of Stones are found. But of latter Times all Colour of Reafon is taken away from the foremention’d Conceit, by the won derful ^ Veins of Stone, fome grey, fome iron colour’d, and fome yellow, which are found in the Highway as one goes from Pot oft to Ormejla down the Hill. There they gather Stones that have in them Impreflions of divers forts ofFigures, fo much to the Life, that no thing but the Author of Nature itfeif could rpolfibly -have produc’d fuch a piece of Work- jnanfhip. I have fome of thefe Stones by me in which you may fee Cockles of all forts great, middle-fiz’d, and fmall ones; fome of them lying upwards, and fome downwards, with the fmalleft Lineaments of thofe Shells •drawn .in great Perfeffion ; and this Place is m the Heart of the Country, and the moft doubleanoimtamousLandtherein,where it were Madnefe to imagine that ever the Sea had pre vail’d, and left Cockles only in this one Part of rt. There be alio among thefe Stones the ' perfeft Refemblance of Toads and Butterflies, •aad tenge Figures, which tiio’ I ha Ve heard from