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REMARKABLE PETRIFACTION.
TO THE EDITOR.
“ Sir—Having been induced by your ready attention in inserting the
several articles I have occasionally transmitted for your truly singular publi-
cation, to imagine similar communications would not be unacceptable, I have
inclosed for your consideration two circumstantial and well authenticated
memoirs of petrified substances discovered, the first in the county of Kent
and the other at Nottingham, which I have every reason to think have never
before been submitted to public knowledge—and am with best wishes for
the success of your excellent publication, your well wisher and occasional
correspondent. D. B. L.
Nottingham, March Sth, 1804.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF A PETRIFIED SUBSTANCE.
The Parliament in 1762 having given orders for a pow-
der magazine to be erected at Folkstone in Kent, the fol-
lowing petrifaction was dug out of an old burial ground
long before that time disused, being taken out of a grave
and presented to Roger North, Esq. of Rougham in Nor-
folk. It was thought by the virtuosi to be a frustrum or
piece of the muscular part of a human body, weighing
about ten pounds, on one side of which was plainly to be
seen two bones lying half out of the mass, one of which
was about five inches long, and was thought to be the
tibia with its head and part of the shank or shin-bone,
the other was shorter and much less; on the opposite
side appeared a flat piece of wood (seemingly oak) though
strongly petrified, which was thought to be a part of the
coffin it was interred in, The whole mass of flesh as to
colour looked as near as it could be compared, to a piece of
mummy or embalmed flesh, interspersed with a great many
iron-coloured spots, and in its shape resembled a great
piece of flesh rolled up in four or five folds, and had some
appearance of the marcasite or iron stone. This was
esteemed the greater curiosity, inasmuch as flesh of any
sort seldom or ever is known to have undergone so strong
a petri-
REMARKABLE PETRIFACTION.
TO THE EDITOR.
“ Sir—Having been induced by your ready attention in inserting the
several articles I have occasionally transmitted for your truly singular publi-
cation, to imagine similar communications would not be unacceptable, I have
inclosed for your consideration two circumstantial and well authenticated
memoirs of petrified substances discovered, the first in the county of Kent
and the other at Nottingham, which I have every reason to think have never
before been submitted to public knowledge—and am with best wishes for
the success of your excellent publication, your well wisher and occasional
correspondent. D. B. L.
Nottingham, March Sth, 1804.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF A PETRIFIED SUBSTANCE.
The Parliament in 1762 having given orders for a pow-
der magazine to be erected at Folkstone in Kent, the fol-
lowing petrifaction was dug out of an old burial ground
long before that time disused, being taken out of a grave
and presented to Roger North, Esq. of Rougham in Nor-
folk. It was thought by the virtuosi to be a frustrum or
piece of the muscular part of a human body, weighing
about ten pounds, on one side of which was plainly to be
seen two bones lying half out of the mass, one of which
was about five inches long, and was thought to be the
tibia with its head and part of the shank or shin-bone,
the other was shorter and much less; on the opposite
side appeared a flat piece of wood (seemingly oak) though
strongly petrified, which was thought to be a part of the
coffin it was interred in, The whole mass of flesh as to
colour looked as near as it could be compared, to a piece of
mummy or embalmed flesh, interspersed with a great many
iron-coloured spots, and in its shape resembled a great
piece of flesh rolled up in four or five folds, and had some
appearance of the marcasite or iron stone. This was
esteemed the greater curiosity, inasmuch as flesh of any
sort seldom or ever is known to have undergone so strong
a petri-