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Upon this Plan it will not not be difficult for an accuſtomed Mind to arrange the whole Foſſile World; and this may ſerve to give the intended Idea of an artificial Arrangement.
A general Inſtance of the Method of finding the Places of the ſeveral Species, may be ſeen in the Exordiums of the Spatogeneſia. As for Example;
Of the Origin of Spar.
The Series of Foſſils make one great Circle; for ever returning into itſelf.
There are a few primitive Bodies; Chalk, Clay, Bitumen, Talc, and the Mineral Acid.
Theſe, variouſly mixed, form many different compound Foſſils: Which mingling, in ſome Places, farther with one another, give Decompounds.
Theſe (in other Places) give up their ſeveral Primitives again to Water: Which delivers them pure in ſome other Parts; ready to form mixt and compound Bodies again.
To trace them thro' theſe Combinations, and to their natural Analyſis again, is the whole Buſineſs of the Student in this Science: For here is no Diſtinction but by Mixture: No Origin from Egg, or Seed.
A great deal of pure Clay mixed with a little Quantity of various Stones, forms the different Clays.
And a great deal of Stone with a little of the Clays, forms the various Species of Stones.
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