Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington.

  • William Darlington
Date:
1849
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Credit: Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall / With notices of their botanical contemporaries. By William Darlington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and greens boiled in water, without butter, * * avoiding all the delicate aromata which the East and West Indies send to us. What a change it must make in my body, that was from his yought customed at dinner and supper, to a bottle and a half wine, besides the rest when I get a friend! However, I can tell to you, that I left it allat once; in three days the swelling of my feets and cruel pains went off, and I my selv became not at all week, but contrary I get a great strength, and sleep exceeding wel. So that I at present am entirely at the service of my friends; and now my worthy friend, the Rev. Mr. ScuuarreEr, returning to you, I take the opportunity to send these to you. I am obliged to you for the description of the gape near the Blew Mountains, all filled with stones. Betwixt Utregt and the Loo, a country place builded by King Winttam the IIL, is the country.all covered with sand-hills for about eighteen Dutch miles ; but heer and there some low planes for a quarter of an hour, which are all fild with stones, les and great, some larger’ than my head, and most part flint stones. I believe realy all the country under the sand there is covered with such stones. I have seen in Flanders, when the King of France made a new rode about Brus- sels, that they removed some immense sand-hills, and found at last the ground all filled with loose stones all roundish, and here and there some petrifications of a yellowish colour, but not separated ; but-shells of differend kind and cochles joined to one another by the same calcarea materia of which the stones consists, so as RuUMPHIUS represents in tab. 58, E. I am infinitely obliged to you for the petrified shells, with the belemnites and other stones. I was surprised to see these shells, for as much as I know, they are originally from the coast of Sicily, and that way, under the name of Bucardia, of which several other species are to be found upon the Alpes in Switzerland, and upon the Mounts of in Italy ; but this particular species was never met calcinated or petrified. It is pity it was broken. Question is, how now, and when, these creatures are brought from Sicily to your country. It must be agreed, that there must have been a passage by water betwixt these two places; but what time it was 80, no body can say. That all the petrifications should be attri- bute to the general deluge, is what I never shall agree; but I think, that with good reason we may derive them from the time of