Three physico-theological discourses ... wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth, the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea, the eruptions of vulcano's, the nature and causes of earthquakes : with an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England ... / by John Ray ...

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Title: Three physico-theological discourses ... wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains, the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth, the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea, the eruptions of vulcano's, the nature and causes of earthquakes : with an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England ... / by John Ray ...
Author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed for Sam. Smith ...,; 1693.
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TAB. III. Pag. 162.

FIG. 1, 2. Two petrify'd Fishes lying in Stone, with their Seales and Bones.

Fig. 3. A Sea-Urchin petrify'd with its prickles broken off, which are a sort of Lapis Iudaicus, or Iew-Stones; their Insertions on the Studs or Protuberances of the Shell are here shewn. See their History and Manner of Lying in Stone and Beds, in Agostino Scilla. 4. Napoli.