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Tho this Seems Miraculous to anyone who has seen them Collect them Looking for Every seperate Stone Like Kennel Rakers from these people if they had Proper encouragement might the fossils of the Cliff be Easily Collected which otherwise from their Scarcity are hardly to be come at as I found from the Small Collection I made during my stay upon them which was one tide. The only Fossils you are sure of Collecting yourself I got very Good Specimens of which are the Pipd Waxen Sein which the people here tell you is Worm Eaten Timber Petrefied the Ludus Helmotii & the Starry waxen Sein which are Shoots of a Stalagmitick substance formed between of the Tessere of the Ludus when they are not quite close together which Pretty often happens. Add to these some Pyrites Particularly one Specimen of the Blisterd Sort very Beautifull & some tingd with fine Colours the Same as those in Eaton Copper mine So well Known at Buxton where they are Sold Every Year in great abundance all these are found in Nodules of Stone Confusedly mixd among the Clay of which you will Scarce Break one without getting something for your Trouble. From the Cliffs we went over the hill to East End where we hop'd to have Purchasd some things of the few Copperas people who do Collect them but were disapointed except in one house where we met with some small Burriner a few Crabs & one Starfish very imperfect from thence to Eastchurch to order dinner at our return from Shellness where I