Why might there not be a time, when these
pebbles were making in embryone (in fieri), for such a shooting as
falls into an ovalish figure?
Pebbles doe breake according to the length of the greatest diameter:
but those wee doe find broken in the earth are broken according to
their shortest diameter. I have broken above an hundred of them, to
try to have one broken at the shortest diameter, to save the charge
and paines of grinding them for molers to grind colours for limming;
and they all brake the long way as aforsayd.
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Black flints are found in great plenty in the chalkie country. They
are a kind of pyrites, and are as regular; 'tis certain they have been
"in fluore".
Excellent fire-flints are digged up at Dun's Pit in Groveley, and
fitted for gunnes by Mr. Th. Sadler of Steeple Langford.
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Anno 1655, I desired Dr. W. Harvey to tell me how flints were
generated. He sayd to me that the black of the flint is but a natural
vitrification of the chalke: and added that the medicine of the flint
is excellent for the stone, and I thinke he said for the greene
sicknesse; and that in some flints are found stones in next degree to
a diamond. The doctor had his armes and his wife's cutt in such a one,
which was bigger than the naile of my middle finger; found at Folkston
in Kent, where he told me he was borne.
In the stone-brash country in North Wilts flints are very rare, and
those that are found are but little.
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